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 educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as a Master of Arts in 1838.

[2] Like a number of his kinsmen, he became an officer in the part-time Royal Berkshire Militia, being commissioned as a captain on 23 February 1838 and was still listed in 1852.

In March 1855, when Lord Palmerston became premier, Pleydell-Bouverie was made Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade,[3][4] and sworn of the Privy Council.

[4][7] When the Irish University Bill was introduced in March, Pleydell-Bouverie finally broke with Gladstone.

[9] Pleydell-Bouverie married Elizabeth Anne, youngest daughter of General Robert Balfour of Balbirnie, Fife, on 1 November 1842.

Pleydell-Bouverie only survived her by four months and died at 44 Wilton Crescent, London, on 16 December 1889, aged 71.