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PLOWDEN, ALFRED CHICHELEY, eldest son of Trevor John Chicheley Plowden (adm. 1824, qv); b. 21 Oct 1844; adm. 21 Jan 1858 (James'); QS 1859; left Mar 1862; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1862; BA 1866; Private Secretary to Sir John Grant, Governor of Jamaica 1866-8; adm. Middle Temple 19 Oct 1863, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; Oxford Circuit; Recorder of Much Wenlock 1879-88; Revising Barrister for Oxfordshire 1882-8; Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Wandsworth 1888-9, West London 1889-93, and Marylebone 1893 – Jul 1914; JP London, Home Counties; author, Grain or Chaff, 1903; m. 28 Jul 1883 Evelyn, youngest dau. of Gen. Sir Charles John Foster KCB; d. 8 Aug 1914.

Plow, Richard Henry, son of Henry Plow; b. July 31, 1896; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (R); left July 1913; Pennsylvania Univ., U.S.A.

Plesch, Andrew Odilo, son of John Oskar Plesch, Prof. of Medicine, Berlin Univ., and Melanie, d. of Adolf Gans of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; b. 29 Nov. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left Dec. 1940; RAF 1942-6; Lloyd’s 1946-50; an insurance adjuster Toronto, Canada 1950-8; pres. Anglo Adjusters Canada Ltd. 1958; m. 7 Oct. 1950 Joan, d. of H. R. Hunt of Aylesbury, Bucks; d. 4 Nov. 1998.

Playford, Anne; eldest daughter of Thomas Baker, City Solicitor for Oxford, and Ann, dau. of John Skingley, Oxford ; Dame of a boarding house in Little Dean’s Yard (on the north side of Little Dean’s Yard, between the Head Master’s House and Ashburnham House, and demolished in 1841) by 5 Jun 1719, retaining it to death ; first of eighteen recorded boarders adm. Sep 1735, last recorded boarder adm. May 1742 ; she may have handed over management of the house to her niece, Mrs Anne Ludford (Dame, above), in the autumn of 1742, for the first five of Mrs Ludford’s boarders were admitted between Oct 1742 and Apr 1743 ; m. 20 Dec 1688 Henry Playford (d.c.1709), music publisher ; d. 29 Jun 1743, aged 72 (will proved PCC 14 Jul 1743). Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. Sister of Mrs.Rachel Taylor (Dame, below), and mother-in-law of Thomas Fitzgerald (qv, also Usher). [What had been Mrs Playford’s house is shown on an undated manuscript plan postdating 1740 as “on lease to Bromfield & Dampier”].

PLAYFAIR, HUGH JAMES MOORE, son of Major-Gen. Archibald Lewis Playfair, Indian Staff Corps (previously EICS Bengal), and his first wife Isabella, dau. of George Huntley Ord, Manchester; b. 24 Jun 1864; adm. 11 Feb 1876 (G); London Univ.; MB 1890; MD 1892; King’s Coll. Hospital and Berlin; MRCS 1890; FRCS 1899; MRCP 1896; FRCP 1918; Chevalier, Légion d’Honneur; practised in London; d. 25 Mar 1928.

PLAYER, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1719.

Platt, Stuart Henry, son of Thomas Glyn Platt, chartered accountant, of Bickley, Kent, and Anita Mary, d. of Henry Cartmel; b. 9 Aug. 1926; adm. May 1940 (R); left Mar. 1943; called to the Bar, Middle Temple Jan. 1948; adm. solicitor July 1955; practised at Bromley, Kent; d. 20 Jan. 1969.