Baron Jean Joseph Edouard Pycke d'Ideghem (11 December 1807 – 27 April 1892) was a Belgian liberal politician.Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles (1852): "Pierre-François Pycke, né le 26 septembre 1778 et baptisé le lendemain à l'église de Saint-Michel à Gand, mort en 1808, épousa Jacqueline lieins, dont : 1° Pierre-François-Augustc, qui suil: 2° Jean-Joseph-Édouard Pycke, chevalier, ..." He was governor of the province of Antwerp from 5 April 1862 until 23 March 1887.Steve Heylen, Bart De Nil, Bart D’hondt, Sophie Gyselinck, Hanne Van Herck and Donald Weber, Geschiedenis van de provincie Antwerpen. Een politieke biografie, Antwerp, Provinciebestuur Antwerpen, 2005, Vol. 2 p. 153.
Political career Edouard Pycke was a member of the Antwerp provincial council for the Canton Mechelen from 5 July 1842 until 25 May 1846 and from 18 July 1848 until 5 April 1846. He was a deputy to the provincial council from 4 August 1848 until 5 April 1862.
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