Bowring, Edgar Alfred
b. 1826
d. 1911-08-08
Edgard Alfred Bowring was a British civil servant and politician. He served as Librarian and Registrar for the British Board of Trade from 1848 to 1863 and represented Exeter in the British Parliament from 1868 to 1874. In Bowring, Edgar Alfred to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 14 July 1862, CO 305:19, no. 6879, 534, Bowring, on behalf of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, informs the Under-Secretary of State that a disbursement has been made by his department. He requests that the amount be paid to Her Majesty's Paymaster General to the credit of the Vote for Lighthouses abroad. Bowring died on 8 August 1911.2
  • 1. Men of the Time [12th ed., 1887] (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887), 138; Mr. E. A. Bowring, Times (London, England), 11 August 1911, 9.
  • 2. Mr. E. A. Bowring, Times (London, England), 11 August 1911, 9.
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