William Edwin Bear (1840–1918)
Farmer and agricultural journalist. Farmer at Thorpe, Essex, 1871. Editor of the Mark Lane Express, a journal advocating the rights of the tenant farmer, 1881; journalist and author, 1891; journalist, author and fruit grower at Hailsham, East Sussex, 1901, 1911.
Sources
BMD (Birth index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/1678/14/20), 1881 (RG11/838/8/17), 1891 (RG12/456/116/51), 1901 (RG13/890/117/27), 1911 (RG14/4879/54)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 15 June 2020)