Sir Edmund Plowden (1590 – July 1659 in
Lydbury North
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,
Shropshire
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,
England
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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
New Albion
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. This attempt, fraught with
mutiny
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, 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 jurist,
Edmund Plowden
Edmund Plowden (1519/20 – 6 February 1585) was an 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†...
(1515–1585), Sir Edmund Plowden was born in 1590 to Francis Plowden (1562–1652) of
Shiplake Court in
Oxfordshire
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and
Wokefield Park in
Berkshire
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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 ''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
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).
External links
Plowden Family Website: The Descendants of Edmund Plowden I
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1590 births
1659 deaths
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