706 Edgar Bowring

Constituency : Exeter  1868-74

Edgar  took  the  second  Exeter  seat  from  the  Tories.

Edgar  was  the  son  of  John  Bowring, the  Governor  of  Hong  Kong. Edgar  started  out  as  a  civil  servant. He  was  librarian  and  registrar  to  the  Board  of  Trade  from  1848  and  secretary  to  the  Commission  for  the  Exhibition  of  1851,  Edgar  was  a  scholar  who  translated  a  number  of  German  poets  into  English. He  was  an  Anglican.

Unsurprisingly  Edgar  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  discussions  of  the  Civil  Service  Estimates.

Edgar's  sister-in-law  Deborah  was  active  in  the  female  suffrage  movement  and  he  presented  a  petition  from  Exeter  on  the  subject.

He  died  in  1911  aged  85.