Edward Pleydell-Bouverie

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
"He did not decline the Speakership"
Pleydell-Bouverie as caricatured in Vanity Fair, July 1872
Under-Secretary of State
for the Home Department
In office
9 July 1850 – 21 February 1852
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterLord John Russell
Preceded byGeorge Cornewall Lewis
Succeeded bySir William Jolliffe, Bt
Paymaster General and
Vice-President of the Board of Trade
In office
31 March 1855 – 13 August 1855
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterThe Viscount Palmerston
Preceded byThe Lord Stanley of Alderley
Succeeded byRobert Lowe
President of the Poor Law Board
In office
13 August 1855 – 21 February 1858
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterThe Viscount Palmerston
Preceded byMatthew Talbot Baines
Succeeded byThomas Sotheron-Estcourt
Personal details
Born(1818-04-26)26 April 1818
Died16 December 1889(1889-12-16) (aged 71)
44 Wilton Crescent, London
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Balfour
(d. 1889)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Edward Pleydell-Bouverie PC, FRS (26 April 1818 – 16 December 1889), styled The Honourable from 1828 to 1855, 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.