Edgar Alfred Bowring

Edgar Alfred Bowring

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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