Edgar Alfred Bowring was a British

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 translator, author and civil servant, serving as librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade

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 (1848–1863), secretary to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

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, and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Exeter

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 (1868–1874).

He was the youngest son of Sir John Bowring

John Bowring

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, and brother of John Charles Bowring and Lewin Bentham Bowring

Lewin Bentham Bowring

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He translated various works of poetry from German into English.

Works

• Free Trade and Its So-Called Sophisms: A Reply to 'Sophisms of Free Trade, etc., Examined by a Barrister with Lord Vere Henry Hobart (1850)
• The Most Holy Book of Psalms Literally Rendered Into English Verse, According to the Prayer Book Version (1858)

Translations

• The Poems of Schiller (1851)
• The Poems of Goethe (1853)
• The Poems of Heine Complete (1861)
• The Works of Frederick Schiller, vol. 5: the poems of Schiller (1875)
• The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (1876)
• The dramatic works of J. W. Goethe, translated from the German with Sir Walter Scott, and Anna Swanwick and others (1880)

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