Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
Edward Pleydell-Bouverie | |
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"He did not decline the Speakership" Pleydell-Bouverie as caricatured in Vanity Fair, July 1872 | |
| Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | |
| In office 9 July 1850 – 21 February 1852 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by | George Cornewall Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Sir William Jolliffe, Bt |
| Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade | |
| In office 31 March 1855 – 13 August 1855 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
| Succeeded by | Robert Lowe |
| President of the Poor Law Board | |
| In office 13 August 1855 – 21 February 1858 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | Matthew Talbot Baines |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 April 1818 |
| Died | 16 December 1889 (aged 71) 44 Wilton Crescent, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Balfour (d. 1889) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Edward Pleydell-Bouverie PC, FRS (26 April 1818 – 16 December 1889), styled The Honourable from 1828 to 1855, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of Lord Palmerston's first administration as Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1855 and as President of the Poor Law Board between 1855 and 1858.