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PLOWDEN, RICHARD CHICHELEY, eldest son of Richard Chicheley Plowden (adm. 1796, qv); b. 6 Aug 1804; adm. 20 May 1818 (Best's); at Haileybury Coll. 1821-4; Writer, EICS Bengal 1824; arrived in India 3 May 1825; d. in India [or China ?] c. 1827.

PLOWDEN, RICHARD CHICHELEY, second son of Richard Chicheley Plowden, EICS Bengal, director East India Company, and Sophia Elizabeth, dau. of George Augustus Prosser, Portsea, Hampshire; b. 19 Aug 1782; adm. 24 May 1796 (Clapham); in school list 1797; EICS Bengal; m. 22 Aug 1803 Sophia Span, dau. of Richard Fleming, Commissioner, Court of Requests, Calcutta; d. at Cape of Good Hope 15 Jul 1825.

PLOWDEN, AUGUSTUS UDNEY CHICHELEY, son of Richard Chicheley Plowden (adm. 1796, qv); b. 20 Sep 1805; adm. 20 May 1818 (Best's); at Haileybury Coll. 1822-6; Writer, EICS Bengal 1826; arrived in India 17 Jun 1827; Assistant to Magistrate, Aligarh 19 Jun 1828; Assistant to Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit, Agra 12 Jul 1831; Collector of Customs, Agra 24 Oct 1837; Officiating Magistrate and Collector, Mynpoore 23 Jul 1840; Joint Magistrate and Collector, Bolundshahr, from 1845; m. 1st, 20 Sep 1832 Rosamund, eldest dau. of Major-Gen. Thomas Newton, EICS Bengal, 28th Bengal Native Infantry; m. 2nd, 8 May 1838 Ellen, second dau. of Capt. John Camin Carne, EICS Bengal, Bengal Artillery; d. at Bolundshahr, India 30 Apr 1852.

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.