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Alfred Chichele Plowden (21 October 1844, Meerut,

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– 8 August 1914,

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) was an English barrister and

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magistrate of the

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. He wrote an autobiography which was published in 1903 by

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. Alfred Chichele Plowden was the elder son of Trevor John Chichele Plowden (1809–1899) and the elder brother of Sir Trevor John Chichele-Plowden of the Indian Civil Service. Alfred's elder sister Georgina married

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. After education at

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, Alfred Plowden matriculated on 12 June 1862 at

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and graduated there B.A. in 1866. From 1866 to 1868 he was private secretary to his uncle Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica. Upon his return to England, Alfred Plowden read for the bar and was appointed barrister-at-law in the

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in 1870. He was recorder of

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from 1879 to 1888 and became magistrate at Marlborough Street Magistrates Court in 1888, remaining magistrate there until his death in 1914. He was also a revising barrister in

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from 1882 to 1888. In the summer of 1883 at the Anglican

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in Chester Square he married his cousin Evelyn Foster, daughter of General Sir Charles Foster. Upon his death Alfred Plowden was survived by his widow, two sons, and a daughter.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Plowden, Alfred Chichele 1844 births 1914 deaths British people in colonial India People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford English barristers Stipendiary magistrates (England and Wales) 19th-century English lawyers

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