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Bowring, Edgar Alfred, 1826-1911

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Edgar Alfred Bowring (1826 - 1911) was a British translator, author and civil servant, serving as librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade (1848 - 1863), secretary to the Royal Commissioner of Exhibition of 1851, and Member of Parliament for Exeter (1868 - 1874).

He was the youngest son of Sir John Bowring, and brother of John Charles Bowring and Lewin Bentham Bowring.

Works

  • Free Trade and Its So-Called Sophisms: A Reply to 'Sophisms of Free Trade, etc., Examined by a Barrister' with Lord Vere Henry Hobart (1850)
  • The Most Holy Book of Psalms Literally Rendered Into English Verse, According to the Prayer Book Version (1858)

Translations

  • The Poems of Schiller (1851)
  • The Poems of Goethe (1853)
  • The Poems of Heine Complete (1861)
  • The Works of Frederick Schiller, vol. 5: the poems of Schiller (1875)
  • The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (1876)
  • The dramatic works of J. W. Goethe, translated from the German with Sir Walter Scott, and Anna Swanwick and others (1880)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present)
Preceded by
John Coleridge
The Viscount Courtenay		 Member of Parliament for Exeter
with John Coleridge 1868–1873
Arthur Mills 1873–1874
1868–1874		 Succeeded by
Arthur Mills
John George Johnson



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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres

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