11 Facts About Edward Pleydell-Bouverie

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie PC, FRS, styled The Honourable from 1828 to 1855, was a British Liberal politician.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie 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.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as a Master of Arts in 1838.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie was a precis writer to Lord Palmerston from January to June 1840 before he was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, on 27 January 1843.

In 1844 Edward Pleydell-Bouverie was returned to Parliament for Kilmarnock Burghs, a constituency he represented until 1874.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie 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, Edward Pleydell-Bouverie was made Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and sworn of the Privy Council.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie was Second Church Estate Commissioner from August 1859 to November 1865, and from 1869 he was one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie was director of the Great Western Railway Company and of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie married Elizabeth Anne, youngest daughter of General Robert Balfour of Balbirnie, Fife, on 1 November 1842.

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie only survived her by four months and died at 44 Wilton Crescent, London, on 16 December 1889, aged 71.