_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.