Edgar Alfred Bowring (; 26 May 1826 – August 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 Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
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, and
Liberal
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Politics
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* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
Member of Parliament
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for
Exeter (1868–1874).
He was the youngest son of Sir
John Bowring
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(1792–1872), of
Exeter, Devon,
Governor of Hong Kong
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and also a traveller and translator of literary works, and was brother of
John Charles Bowring and
Lewin Bentham Bowring
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Family
He was the second son of Sir John Bowr ...
.
He translated various works of poetry from German into English.
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
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'' (1853)
*''The Poems of
Heine Complete'' (1861)
*''The Works of Frederick Schiller, vol. 5: the poems of Schiller'' (1875)
*''The Tragedies of
Vittorio Alfieri
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Early life
Alfieri was ...
'' (1876) (revisions of the 1815 translations of
Charles Lloyd)
*''The dramatic works of J. W. Goethe, translated from the German'' with
Sir Walter Scott
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, and
Anna Swanwick and others (1880)
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1826 births
1911 deaths
UK MPs 1868–1874
19th-century British writers
British translators
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People educated at University College School
Edgar Alfred
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Exeter
Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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