Edward Bearcroft, KC (30 April 1737 – 20 November 1796) was an English barrister, judge, and politician.
Educated at Charterhouse until 1752, he then went to Peterhouse, Cambridge and in 1754 began legal studies at the Inner Temple, being called to the bar on 24 November 1758.
His parliamentary patron, William Thomas Beckford, then offered him the seat of Saltash, where he was returned in 1790, holding it until his death.
He spoke against John Horne Tooke's Westminster election petition on 9 December 1790, was listed hostile to the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland in April 1791, attempted to define the function of juries in libel cases on 31 May 1791, opposed the Farnham Hop bill as an attack on private property on 7 June 1793, and on 3 March 1794 defended the petition of Christopher Atkinson Saville.
[1] On 28 July 1795 he wrote to Pitt asking that his second son Philip be appointed Deputy Commissary of Accounts on the staff of the British forces in Santo Domingo, now Haiti; this request was granted.