Edward Trollope (15 April 1817 – 10 December 1893) was an antiquary and an Anglican Bishop of Nottingham in the Victorian era.

Educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford,[2][3] Trollope returned to Lincolnshire to become vicar of Rauceby in 1841.

In 1843, his maternal relative, Sir John Thorold, appointed him to the rectory of Leasingham, Lincolnshire, and he held this living for fifty years.

It was to a large extent the result of Trollope’s hard work as a fundraiser that the new see of Southwell, was established in 1884.

He also wrote a life of Pope Adrian IV (1856), a manual of sepulchral memorials (1858), a work on ancient and medieval labyrinths and turf mazes (1858),[9] and genealogies of the Thorold and Trollope families (1874 and 1875).