Sir Edmund Plowden (1590 – July 1659 in

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) also titled '' Lord Earl Palatinate, Governor and Captain-General of the Province of New Albion in North America'' was an explorer and colonial governor who attempted to colonize North America in the mid-seventeenth century under a grant for a colony to be named

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. This attempt, fraught with mutiny, legal woes, lack of funds, and bad timing and compromised by Plowden's ill-temper, was a failure, and Plowden returned to England in 1649.

Biography

The grandson of the eminent jurist,

Edmund Plowden Sir Edmund Plowden (1519/20 – 6 February 1585) was a distinguished English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist during the late Tudor period. Early life Plowden was born at Plowden Hall, Lydbury North, Shropshire. He was the son of Humphrey ...

(1515–1585), Sir Edmund Plowden was born in 1590 to Francis Plowden (1562–1652) of Shiplake Court in Oxfordshire and

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in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Fermor. Plowden married Mabel Marriner (1596–1674) in 1609.

References

*Edward C. Carter II and Clifford Lewis III "Sir Edmund Plowden and the New Albion Charter, 1632-1785" in ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'' (April 1959). *Clifford Lewis III. "Some Extracts Relating to Sir Edmund Plowden and Others from the Lost Minutes of the Virginia Council and General Court: 1642-1645" and "Some Notes on Sir Edmund Plowden's Attempts to Settle His Province of New Albion" in ''William and Mary Historical Quarterly'' (January 1940). *

Charles Varlo Charles Varlo or Varley (c.1725–c.1795) was an English agriculturist. He held papers pertaining to the failed colony of New Albion. Life He was born in Yorkshire about 1725. He visited Ireland in his twenty-first year, spending some time with E ...

''The Grant of King Charles the First, to Sir Edmund Plowden, Earl Palatine of Albion, of the Province of New Albion, in America, June 21, A.D., 1634'' (1785) (Collection of the New York Public Library).

External links

Plowden Family Website: The Descendants of Edmund Plowden I
{{DEFAULTSORT:Plowden, Edmund People of colonial New Jersey People of colonial Pennsylvania People of colonial Maryland 1590 births 1659 deaths People from Shiplake People from West Berkshire District English emigrants