Sir William Chichele Plowden (1832 – 4 September 1915) was a Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council in
India
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, and subsequently a
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1886 to 1892.
Plowden was the son of
William Plowden FRS MP of Ewhurst Park and his wife Jane Annette Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell. He was educated at
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
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and
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. He was in the
Bengal
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Civil Service as Census Commissioner for India and Secretary of the Board of Revenue of the North West Provinces. He was also a member of the Legislative Council in
Calcutta
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. In 1886, he was knighted as KCSI.
In the
1886 general election, Plowden was elected
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Wolverhampton West and held the seat until
1892
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January–March
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.
Plowden married Emily Frances Ann Bass (1841–1915), the eldest daughter of
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Lord Vaux.
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1832 births
1915 deaths
People educated at Harrow School
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1886–1892
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India