Edward Bonverie Pusey, an English clergyman, born in 1800. He is the second son of the Hon. Philip Bouverie (who assumed the name of Pusey), younger brother of the first earl of Radnor. He graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1822, obtained a fellowship in Oriel college, took orders, and in 1828 became canon of Christ Church cathedral and regius professor of Hebrew in the university, a post which he still holds. He shares with Dr. Newman the reputation of originating the so-called Anglo-Catholic movement in the church of England in 1833, which finds its best exponent in the celebrated "Tracts for the Times." Many of these, including an elaborate treatise on baptism, were written by Dr. Pusey, who also published letters in defence of his views to the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops of Oxford and London. The characteristic tenets of the "Puseyite" party are judgment by works equally as by faith, baptismal regeneration, the apostolic succession of the clergy, the supreme authority of the church, the expediency of auricular confession and conventual establishments, and an efficacy in the sacraments of the church not inferior to that claimed exclusively by the Roman Catholic church. They aimed also at certain innovations in the ceremonies of public worship.

In 1843 Dr. Pusey preached a sermon before the university, in which he was understood to confess his belief in the doctrine of transubstantiation; and after an examination before a board of judges he was accordingly suspended from the office of preacher within the precincts of the university for three years. He was one of the editors of the "Library of Translations from the Fathers" and of the "Angle-Catholic Library," and has adapted to the use of the church of England several Roman Catholic devotional works. He has published "Causes of Rationalism in Germany" (1828); "Remarks on Cathedral Institutions" (2d ed., (1833); "Royal Supremacy in Spiritual Matters" (1850); "The Doctrine of the Real Presence, gathered from the Fathers" (1855); "The Real Presence the Doctrine of the English Church" (1857); "History of the Councils of the Church, A. D. 51-381" (1857); "Commentary on the Minor Prophets" (in numbers, 1860-'62); "Daniel the Prophet: nine Lectures" (1864); and "The Church of England a Portion of Christ's one Holy Catholic Church" (1865).