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Plowden
Plowden may refer to: * Plowden, Shropshire, village in Shropshire, England People with the surname Plowden * Alfred Chichele Plowden (1844–1914), English barrister and court magistrate * Alison Plowden (1931–2007), English historian and biographer * Bridget Plowden, Lady Plowden (1910–2000), English educationist, reformer * David Plowden (born 1932), American photographer * Edmund Plowden (1518–1585), English lawyer, legal scholar and theorist * Edmund Plowden (colonial governor) (1590–1659), explorer and colonial governor * Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden (1907–2001), English industrial and public servant * Francis Peter Plowden (1749–1829), English barrister and writer. * Francis Plowden (British Army officer) (1851–1911), British general * Francis Plowden (businessman) (born 1945), lay member of the U. K. Judicial Appointments Commission * Henry Plowden (1840-1920), English cricketer * Luke Ishikawa Plowden (1995), Japanese-American actor * Robert Plowden (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Plowden (1490–1557), by his wife, Elizabeth Sturry (died 1559), widow of William Wollascot, and daughter of John Sturry, Esq., of Rossall, Shropshire. Educated at the University of Cambridge, he did not take a degree, and proceeded to the Middle Temple in 1538 to study law. Subsequent to studies at Oxford, he qualified as a surgeon and physician in 1552. Upon the accession of the Catholic Queen Mary, Plowden was appointed one of the Council of the Marches (of Wales). In 1553, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wallingford (then in Berkshire now in Oxfordshire), followed, in the next two years, by the same office for both Reading, Berkshire and then Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. He lived mostly at Shiplake Court in Oxfordshire a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden
Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Lord Plowden, GBE, KCB (6 January 1907 – 15 February 2001) was a British industrialist and public servant in the Treasury. Career Before the Second World War, Plowden joined C Tennant Sons & Co, commodity dealers. As he spoke French and German and knew the European mainland well, he was put in charge of selling Palestine potash, in competition with the European potash cartel; he did so to such effect that his firm, as it had hoped, was invited to join the cartel. During the war, he served in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and later joined the Ministry of Aircraft Production, in which he remained until 1946. During 1945–46 he was chief executive in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman. He returned after the War to the private sector, but then was appointed Chief Planning Officer to the Cabinet Office in March 1947. The group was called the Central Economic Planning Staff and Plowden headed it for over six years. Korean War "I w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Plowden, Lady Plowden
Dame Bridget Horatia Plowden, Baroness Plowden, (née Richmond; 5 May 1910 – 29 September 2000) was a British educational reformer and influential figure in primary education, broadcasting and the rights of Romani people. She chaired the group which authored and published the 1967 Plowden Report on primary education in Britain, and was chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1975–80. Early life and family Lady Plowden was born Bridget Horatia Richmond at Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Yorkshire, the second daughter and second child of the five children of Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond (1871–1946), naval officer, and later master of Downing College, Cambridge, and his wife, Florence Elsa (1879/80–1971). Her husband was Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, GBE, KCB. He was first knighted in 1946, and later elevated. In 1959, he was made a life peer as Baron Plowden, of Plowden, Shropshire. The couple had four children: William Julius Lowthian Plowden (1935–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Plowden
David Plowden (born October 9, 1932), is an American photographer who has made historical documentary photography of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands, and small towns. Plowden has produced 20 books and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. Life and work Plowden graduated from Yale College in 1955. After working for the Great Northern Railway in 1959, he studied under Minor White and Nathan Lyons, and was an assistant to O. Winston Link and George Meluso. He has held various teaching positions at Illinois Institute of Technology – Institute of Design, University of Iowa - School of Journalism, University of Baltimore, and Grand Valley State University. In 1995, Plowden agreed to transfer the entire archive of his notes, negatives and prints to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University at the end of his career. In 2017, the Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Julius Lowthian Plowden
The Honourable William Julius Lowthian Plowden (7 February 1935 – 26 June 2010) was a British political science academic and government advisor. Biography Plowden's parents were both public servants and he was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he took his doctorate. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship at the University of California in Berkeley. On his return he was briefly in 1958 a staff writer for ''The Economist'', then joined in 1959 with a stellar pass of the annual Civil service examination the Board of Trade. In 1965 he left the civil service when he was appointed as lecturer on government at the London School of Economics (LSE). Plowden joined Edward Heath's Downing Street think-tank the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS) as a founder-member, before a short period in 1977 as an Under Secretary in the Department of Industry. Plowden then joined the Royal Institute of Public Administration as Director-General, where he stayed for ten years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Plowden (colonial Governor)
Sir Edmund Plowden (1590 – July 1659 in Lydbury North, Shropshire, England) 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 New Albion. 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 (1515–1585), Sir Edmund Plowden was born in 1590 to Francis Plowden (1562–1652) of Shiplake Court in Oxfordshire and Wokefield Park 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Plowden (barrister)
Francis Peter Plowden (8 June 1749 – 4 January 1829) was an English Jesuit, barrister and writer. Life Francis Plowden, born in Shropshire on 8 June 1749, was the eighth son of William Ignatius Plowden of Plowden Hall. He was educated at St. Omer's College and entered the Jesuit novitiate at Watten in 1766. When the Society was suppressed, he was teaching at the College at Bruges. Not being in holy orders he was, by the terms of suppression, relieved of his first vows, and soon afterwards married Dorothea, daughter of George J. Griffith Phillips, esq., of Curaegwillinag, Carmarthenshire. "Curaegwillinag" is an anglicisation of the Welsh placename for an old commote located in Carmarthenshire. Kymwt Carnywyllawn was in Cantref Eginawc (anglicized as "Eginog"), which was in Ystrad Tywi. He entered the Middle Temple and practiced as a conveyancer, the only department of the legal profession open to Catholics under the Penal Laws. After the relief Act of 1791 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Chichele Plowden
Alfred Chichele Plowden (21 October 1844, Meerut, British India – 8 August 1914, South Kensington) was an English barrister and Metropolitan Police magistrate of the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court. He wrote an autobiography which was published in 1903 by T. Fisher Unwin. Alfred Chichele Plowden was the elder son of Trevor John Chichele Plowden (1809–1899) and the elder brother of Sir Trevor John Chichele-Plowden of the Indian Civil Service. Alfred's elder sister Georgina married Sir William Grey. After education at Westminster School, Alfred Plowden matriculated on 12 June 1862 at Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated there B.A. in 1866. From 1866 to 1868 he was private secretary to his uncle Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica. Upon his return to England, Alfred Plowden read for the bar and was appointed barrister-at-law in the Middle Temple in 1870. He was recorder of Much Wenlock from 1879 to 1888 and became magistrate at Marlborough Street Magistrates Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Plowden
Thomas Plowden (1594 – 13 February 1664) was an English Jesuit to whom has been traditionally attributed an important translation under the name Thomas Salusbury. Life Thomas Plowden was born in Oxfordshire, the third son of Francis Plowden of Shiplake Court (Oxfordshire) and Wokefield Park (Berkshire), younger brother of Edmund Plowden, and grandson of Edmund Plowden. Plowden was sent on the English Mission about 1622. He was seized, with other priests, by pursuivants in 1628 at Clerkenwell, the London residence of the Jesuits, where he filled various offices of the order, despite the perils of the Mission in London until his death there. Translation As was the case with his contemporary Nathaniel Bacon, English Jesuits, given their illegal status as recusants, often published under assumed names. Plowden presented his translations under the name of the distinguished Welsh Salusbury family. Plowden translated Daniello Bartoli's 1645 into English as '' The Lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Plowden
Walter Charles Metcalf Chichele Plowden (3 August 1820 – 13 March 1860) was a British diplomat, consul at Massawa on the Red Sea coast from 1848 to his death. He played a role in Ethiopian politics in the mid 19th-century: during his tenure he cultivated the friendship of first '' Ras'' Ali, and later the Ethiopian emperor Tewodros II. J. R. Hooker remarks that "as a political agent, Plowden was valuable; as a writer of travel literature he was engaging and intelligent; but as a consul he was useless, his commercial reports being limited to three in 1852. He was never at his post after 1855."Hooker"The Foreign Office and the 'Abyssinian Captives'", ''Journal of African History'' 2 (1961), p. 245 In 1860, Plowden was murdered aged 39 during a journey between Gondar and the Red Sea by a follower of Agew Niguse, a warlord hostile to Tewodros. Plowden was interred in the Royal Enclosure Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plowden, Shropshire
Plowden is a hamlet in the parish of Lydbury North, Shropshire, England. It is in the valley of the River Onny and lies 3 miles east of Bishop's Castle. Plowden was one of the stations on the Bishops Castle Railway, which closed in 1935. Plowden Hall is a grade II* listed building, being a timber-framed building dating in part from about 1300, and is described in the novel ''John Inglesant'' by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, who drew the place as ''Lydiard''. Its owners, the Plowden family, remained Roman Catholics after the Reformation and there is a Roman Catholic church of St Walburga in Plowden. When Edwin Plowden was awarded a life peerage in 1959 he took the title of Baron Plowden of Plowden in the county of Salop. GWR Hall class locomotive 4956 was named after the hall. See also *Listed buildings in Lydbury North Lydbury North is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 57 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Plowden
Sir Henry Meredyth Chichele Plowden (26 September 1840 — 8 January 1920) was an English first-class cricketer, barrister and judge. The son of George Augustus Chichele Plowden (1810–1871) and Charlotte Elise née Robertson (1821–1862), he was born in British India at Sylhet in September 1840. He was educated in England at Harrow School, where he played for the school cricket team. He was also a champion rackets player whilst at Harrow. From there, he matriculated to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Cambridge University Cricket Club and made his debut in first-class cricket for the club against the Cambridge Town Club at Fenner's in 1860. He played first-class cricket for the university until 1863, making ten appearances; four of these came in The University Match against Oxford University at Lord's, gaining him his blue. He also captained the club in his final two years of study. Alongside playing for Cambridge, Plowden also played first-class cricket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
