Modern English biography

_Dictionary of architecture vi_ 134 (1881); _Building News iii_ 359–60 (1857). PLENDERLEATH, CHARLES. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49 foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney creek in America. _d._ Florence 1 Jany. 1854. PLEON, TOM, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. _b._ 1862; appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane 1887–91. _d._ Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April 1892. PLEWS, JOHN MACKAY. _b._ 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect 1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale. _d._ Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. _A. Barnard’s Noted breweries iv_ 410–35 (1891); _The Brewers’ Journal 15 June 1890 p._ 385. PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, EDWARD (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869). _b._ 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24 Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July 1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3 April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July 1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov. 1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and other countries; director of the Great Western railway company and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters in The Times over the initials E. B. P. _d._ 44 Wilton crescent, London 16 Dec. 1889. _Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp._ 10, 11. PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, PHILIP (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828). _b._ Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth 1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65; sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. _d._ Clyffe hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872. PLINT, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist; was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec. to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years; a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies 1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent 1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851. _d._ Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 471. PLINT, THOMAS EDWARD. _b._ 1823; stock and share broker Leeds, suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost £25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas, and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising £18,391. _d._ Leeds 11 July 1861. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 497; _Art Journal Aug. 1861 p._ 255, _April 1862 p._ 105. PLOW, ANTHONY JOHN (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94, rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863 to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs. Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he _d._ of his wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. _Annual register_ (1868) 22–4. PLOWDEN, CHARLES JOSEPH. _b._ 1804; head of firm of Plowden and Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. _d._ the Palazetto, Rome 28 Feb. 1884. PLOWDEN, FLORENCE. _b._ 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W. S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No Escape company to 1881; _m._ Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. _d._ 3 Royal terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890. PLOWDEN, TREVOR JOHN CHICHELE. _b._ 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879; adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr. first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge; C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W. C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. _d._ Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887. PLOWDEN, WALTER CHICHELE (youngest son of Trevor Chichele Plowden of the Bengal civil service). _b._ 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England 1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for 1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he _d._ 13 March 1860. _W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country_ (1868), _memoir pp. vii–x_; _Foreign office list July 1860 p._ 146. PLOWDEN, WILLIAM HENRY CHICHELE (4 son of Richard Chichele Plowden, a director of the H.E.I. Co., _d._ Jany. 1830). _b._ 1790; educ. Westminster; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1805; president of British factory in China; superintendent of British trade there 1833; a director of East India company 1841–54; contested Nottingham 24 July 1837; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1847–52; contested Newport 9 July 1852; F.R.S. 15 April 1847. _d._ Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, Hants. 29 March 1880. PLOWMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Oxford 1811; reporter for the Oxford journal 1829–62; started the Oxford times 1862, which he transferred to a company 1867; university correspondent of the Morning post to death; opened the first reading room in Oxford; a singer and a speaker at public dinners. _d._ Oxford 9 Nov.