Edmond James de Poher de la Poer, 1st Count de la Poer (6 March 1841 – 30 August 1915),[1] known as Edmond James Power until 1863,[2] and 18th Baron le Power and Coroghmore[3] from 1851 to 1864, was an Irish Liberal politician.
On 12 May 1851, he succeeded to the Irish peerage as 18th Baron le Power and Coroghmore of County Waterford.
[3] In 1863, he commissioned the building of Castle Gurteen de la Poer, an Elizabethan Revival house in County Waterford, Ireland, replacing an earlier house on the estate.
[4] On 19 August 1864, he was made 1st Count de la Poer in the Papal States.
[3] De la Poer was elected MP as a Liberal candidate for County Waterford at a by-election in 1866—caused by the succession of John Beresford to 5th Marquess of Waterford—and held the seat until 1873 when he resigned.