Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
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The Right Honourable Edward Pleydell-Bouverie FRS |
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"He did not decline the Speakership"
Pleydell-Bouverie as caricatured in Vanity Fair, July 1872 |
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| Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department |
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In office 9 July 1850 – 21 February 1852 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by | George Cornewall Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Sir William Jolliffe, Bt |
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Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade |
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In office 31 March 1855 – 13 August 1855 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | The Lord Stanley of Alderley |
| Succeeded by | Robert Lowe |
| President of the Poor Law Board | |
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In office 13 August 1855 – 21 February 1858 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | Matthew Talbot Baines |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt |
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| Born | 26 April 1818 |
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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, 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.
Pleydell-Bouverie was the second son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor, by his second wife, Anne Judith, third daughter of Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, 3rd Baronet. The family homes were at Longford Castle in Wiltshire and Coleshill House in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 4th Earl of Radnor, was his elder brother. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as a Master of Arts in 1838. He was a précis writer to Lord Palmerston from January to June 1840 before he was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, on 27 January 1843.
In 1844 Pleydell-Bouverie was returned to Parliament for Kilmarnock Burghs, a constituency he represented until 1874. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in Lord John Russell's first administration from July 1850 to March 1852, and from April 1853 to March 1855 he was Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons, while Lord Aberdeen was prime minister. In March 1855, when Lord Palmerston became premier, Pleydell-Bouverie was made Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and sworn of the Privy Council. In August of the same year he was transferred to the Presidency of the Poor Law Board, a position he held until 1858. However, he was never a member of the cabinet. In 1857 he was appointed one of the committee of the Council on Education. He was Second Church Estate Commissioner from August 1859 to November 1865, and from 1869 he was one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.
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