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.

PLUMPTON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1566-70 (Chapter Muniments 54012-8).

PLUMPTON, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1568, Westminster Student to 1577; BA 26 Feb 1571/2; MA 1575; he appears to have got into trouble with the Privy Council in 1577 for “certain lewde speeches” against Queen Elizabeth I, and was bound over to appear “if nede shall require” (Acts of the Privy Council, New Series, ix, pp 300, 348).

PLUMSTEAD, AUGUSTINE, son of Augustine Plumstead, Beccles, Suffolk, and Anne Mott (IGI); bapt. 23 Oct 1634; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll, Cambridge 1654, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1654, scholar 1655; BA 1657/8; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1659 – c. 1661, when he lost his Fellowship and was denied the degree of MA on his refusing to conform; minister of dissenting congregation at Wrentham, Suffolk (licensed 8 May 1672); began compilation of a double concordance to the Bible, never completed; d. 10 Jan 1715. [presumably m. 1st, 20 Oct 1674 Jane Stifling (IGI); m. 2nd, 29 Apr 1677 Martha Micleborough (IGI)]

POCLINGTON, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 32460).

POCOCKE, ROBERT, son of Rev. Edward Pococke DD, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford Univ., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Burdet, West Worldham, Hampshire; bapt. Childrey, Berks., 15 May 1657 (IGI); adm.; KS 1671; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 May 1673, aged 15, Canoneer Student 25 Jul 1673 – void 1701; BA 6 Feb 1676/7; MA 1679; ordained deacon (Oxford) 6 Jun 1680; perhaps living Long Ditton, Surrey, in 1691. [will of Rev. Robert Pocock, Rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, proved PCC 3 Aug 1714]

POINTELL, DANIEL, son of Edward Pointell, Chislehurst, Kent, and Judith, dau. of Daniel Shettenden; bapt. 30 Nov 1623; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1641, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1641, scholar 1642, matr. Easter 1642; BA 1644/5; MA 1648; Rector of Staplehurst, Kent 1648 – Aug 1662, when ejected for refusal to conform; established an Independent congregation there (licensed as Presbyterian minister 10 Aug 1672); m. 8 Nov 1653 Mary, dau. of Ninian Butcher, St. Mary Aldermanbury, London; buried Staplehurst, Kent 12 Jun 1674.

POLE, EVAN WILLIAMS, youngest son of William Pole MICE MusDoc FRS, Westminster, civil engineer, and Matilda, youngest dau. of Rev. Henry Gauntlett, Vicar of Olney, Bucks.; b. 4 Jul 1859; adm. 22 Sep 1870; QS 1874; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1878, matr. 11 Oct 1878; BA 1882; MA 1885; ordained 1892; Assistant Master, King Edward VI School, Louth, Lincs., 1882-4, Bradfield Coll. 1885-95, Dulwich Coll. 1897-8; a violinist; m. 14 Oct 1908 Laura Elizabeth, second dau. of James Weston, Lutton, Northants; d. Dec 1930.

POLHILL, JOHN BOSANQUET, son of Rev. Robert Polhill, Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, and Mellicent ---; bapt. Goudhurst 23 Oct 1771; adm. 13 Jan 1785; KS (aged 13) 1785; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790 [check], scholar 6 May 1791; BA 1794; MA 1797; Whitehall Preacher 1799; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1796, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1797; ordained deacon (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1794, priest (Winchester) 12 Mar 1797; Curate, Goudhurst, Kent 1794, Worplesdon, Surrey 1797; Rector of Hadleigh, Essex, from 17 May 1802; Chaplain to HRH Duke of York; m. Eliza, only dau. of Walter Barton May, Hadlow Castle, Kent; d. 1825 (will proved PCC 21 Apr 1825).

POLLARD, GEORGE EDWARD, eldest son of Edward William Pollard MRCS LSA, Brompton Square, London, and his second wife Emma Louise, eldest dau. of George Edward Thompson, Woodbridge, Suffolk, shipowner; grandson of Robert Blemell Pollard (qv); b. 30 Jun 1852; adm. 15 Jun 1865; QS 1868; left Dec 1868; St. George’s Hospital; LSA 1879; LRCP Edinburgh and LM 1880; LRCS Edinburgh 1880; medical practitioner at Corby, Lincs.; d. 11 Mar 1883.