Plaskitt, Eric Mirfield, brother of Guy Mallabey Plaskitt (q.v.); b. July 20, 1896; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (A); left Easter 1914; enlisted in Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. Serv. Batt. Middlesex Regt. Sept. 25, 1918; demob. Oct. 1919; served in France, Mesopotamia, and N.W. Frontier of lndia; d. 1979.

Plaskitt, Charles Michael, only son of Joshua Plaskitt, F.R.C.S., of Westminster, by Lydia Francis, daughter of C. S. Webb, of Petersham, Surrey; b. Aug. 15, 1874; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (H); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1893, matric. Oct. 1893; d. May 8, 1896.

Plaistowe, Thomas William, brother of Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe (qv); b. 18 Jan. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (H); left July 1931; Univ. of London, Cert. of Interior Decoration 1933; ARIBA 1959; architectural asst Min. of Works; munitions work in WW2; d. 7 Feb. 1972.

Plaistowe, Ralph Cuthbert, son of Cuthbert Plaistowe of Ealing and Christine Lilian, d. of Ralph Callard of Ealing; b. 6 Dec. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left July 1930; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. 1930, BA 1933; a chartered accountant, ACA 1937; practised in London and Leamington Spa; Sgt RAFVR, killed in action 1 Sep. 1941.

Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe was born at Ealing, Middlesex on the 6th of December 1911 the elder son of Cuthbert Plaistowe, managing director of a fruit preserve and confectionary manufacturer, and Christine Lilian (nee Callard) Plaistowe of “Mansfield”, Elgin Road, Weybridge in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1925 to July 1930. He matriculated for Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1930 where he graduated with a BA in 1933. He went to work as a chartered accountant and qualified ACA in 1937. He practiced in London and at Leamington Spa. He was awarded a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 16362) at Brooklands Flying Club on the 1st of October 1938 while flying a Tiger Moth aircraft. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Flight Sergeant.
On the 1st of September 1941 Bomber Command dispatched 34 Wellingtons and 20 Hampdens for an operation on Cologne. The weather was clear and returning crews reported that they saw a number of fires on the ground but many of these were German decoy fires. The German authorities reported that one house was damaged in the city and that there were no casualties on the ground.
Ralph Plaistowe and his crew took off from RAF Scampton at 8.13pm on the 1st of September 1941 in Hampden Mk I AE187 OL-L for the operation. They crossed the English coast at Orfordness. The aircraft was shot down by an enemy night fighter flown by Oberleutnant Wilhem “Willi” Dimter of 3./NJG1 and crashed at Deurne, Noord Brabant, 9 kilometres to the east south east of Helmond in Holland at 11.47pm with the loss of the entire crew. Theirs was the fourth victory of an eventual eight victories for Willi Dimter before he was killed in action on the 7th of September 1942.
The crew was: -
Sergeant James Hughes (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Adrian John Somerville-Woodiwis (Navigator)
Sergeant Ralph Cuthbert Plaistowe (Pilot)
Sergeant Robert Buist Scott (Air Gunner)
Theirs was the only aircraft which failed to return from the raid.
The crew was buried at the Military Cemetery, Eindhoven on the 2nd of September 1941. Their bodies were exhumed for identification purposes and were reburied on the 23rd of April 1947.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Queens’ College, Cambridge and on the 1939-1945 Roll of Honour of Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Articled Clerks.
He is buried at Woensel General Cemetery, Eindhoven Plot JJ, Grave 35.

PLACE, MARWOOD, son of Rev. Edward Place, Rector of Bedale, Yorks.; bapt. St. Crux, York 13 May 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Apr 1736 (Bourne's); left 1739; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 3 Nov 1739, scholar 2 May 1740; BA 1743/4; MA 1747; BD 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1746, Major Fellow 9 Jul 1747; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 18 Dec 1748, priest (Chester) 16 Jun 1754; Rector of Over, Cambs., 1762-4; Vicar of Sedbergh, Yorks., 1764-6; Vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, from 7 Feb 1766; m. 1771 Anne, dau. of Roger Wilson, Casterton Hall, Westmorland; buried Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland 12 Oct 1791.

Pixell, Henry Randolph Prynne, son of the Rev. Charles Henry Vincent Pixell, Vicar of St. Faith's, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, by Edith Mary, daughter of the Rev. Alfred Wilson, Rector of East Farndon, Northants; b. Nov. 16, 1870; adm. April 29, 1886 (H); left April 1888; an engineer; m. Aug. 6, 1892, Mabel Irene Charity, daughter of Thomas Howden, of Stoke Newington.

Pitt-Lewis, George Francis, son of George Pitt-Lewis, K.C., of Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, by Mary Ann Isabel, daughter of Gen. John George Palmer, Madras Staff Corps; b. April 28, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (G); left July 1906; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Devon Regt. July 2, 1915; acting Capt. 1st Batt. Jan. 1917; wounded April 23, 1917, at Vimy Ridge; acting Capt. 5th Batt. Aug. 31, 1918; demob. April 1919; M.C. Feb. 15, 1919; admitted a solicitor, Nov. 1912; retired from practice 1961 as senior partner in Coward, Chance & Co., London; a member of the Council of the Law Society 1944-60; secretary to the Governing Body of the School 1944-61; Master of the Broderers Company 1959; Member of the Disciplinary Committee constituted under the Solicitors Act, 1960-1; m. July 10, 1926, Edith Emily Phyllis, youngest daughter of Henry Mead, of Ladbroke Gdns., London; d. 17 Sept. 1966.

PITT, THOMAS, brother of William Henry Pitt (qv); bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road 16 Jul 1792 (IGI); adm. 24 Jan 1801 (Clapham); in school list 1801; left 1807; d. unm. 1863.

PITT, STEPHEN, son of Samuel Pitt, London, merchant, and Catherine, dau. of Robert Orbell; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1740/1 (Greet's); purchased Campden House estate, Kensington, in 1751; m.; d. 27 Feb 1793.

PITT, LONDON KING, son of Rev. Richard Pitt, Tiverton, Devon, and Margaret (Birkinsha ?) (IGI); b. 5 May 1773; adm. 24 Apr 1782; KS (aged 13) 1783; at Merchant Taylors Sch. 1784-91; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Jun 1791; BA 1795; MA 1801; BCL and DCL 1807; Fellow, St. John’s Coll.; ordained deacon (Winchester) 20 Dec 1795 Chaplain to British Embassy, St. Petersburg; Rector of Hanwell, Oxfordshire 7 May 1802; Rector of Hinton on the Green, Gloucs., 20 Mar 1805 (disp. to hold with Hanwell); m. at British Embassy, St. Petersburg 5 Oct 1798 Frances Percy, dau. of Richard Brompton (IGI); d. 6 May 1813, aged 41.