# William Chichele Plowden > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/William_Chichele_Plowden > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/William_Chichele_Plowden.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chichele_Plowden > Source revision: 1335534243 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Member of Legislative Council of India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox person|name = William Chichele Plowden|honorific_prefix = Sir|birth_date = 1832|death_date = 4 September 1915|occupation = Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council in India}} '''Sir William Chichele Plowden''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI}} (1832 – 4 September 1915) was a [Civil Servant](/source/Indian_Civil_Service) and Member of the Legislative Council in [India](/source/British_India), and subsequently a [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician who sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) from 1886 to 1892. ==Early life and education== William Chichele Plowden was born in 1832,{{cite web |title=Report on the census of British India, taken on the 17th February 1881. |url=https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay/alma999879524401631/44MAN_INST:MU_NUI |website=www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk |publisher=Eyre and Spottiswoode |language=en |date=1883}} to [William Plowden](/source/William_Plowden_(Conservative_politician)) [FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) MP of Ewhurst Park and his wife Jane Annette Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell. He was educated at [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School) and [Haileybury College](/source/Haileybury_College).{{cite book |editor1-last=Welch |editor1-first=R. Courtenay |title=The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893 |date=1894 |publisher=Longmans, Green |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qupRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA140|language=en}} ==Career== Plowden arrived in India in 1852.{{cite book |author=Govt. Sectt., N.W.P. and Oudh |title=History of services of gazetted officers employed under the government of the N.W.P. and Oudh |date=1881 |publisher=North-Western Provinces and Oudh Govt. Press |location=Allahabad |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofservice00alla/page/13/mode/2up?q=Plowden|page=13}} He was in the [Bengal](/source/Bengal) 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](/source/Calcutta).{{cite book |title=The Windsor Peerage for 1891 (second Year) |date=1891 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |page=407 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=stPWgWLwU64C&pg=PA407 |language=en}} ==Later life== Plowden retired in 1885.{{cite book |last1=Whitcombe |first1=Elizabeth |title=Agrarian Conditions in Northern India: the United Provinces under British Rule, 1860-1900 |volume=1|date=1971 |publisher=Thomson Press |location=New Delhi |pages=xxvi-xxvii |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.13242/page/n27/mode/2up?q=Plowden |chapter=Notes on careers of prominent officers mentioned in the text}} In 1886, he was knighted as KCSI.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22William+CHichele+Plowden%22&pg=RA2-PA140 The India and India Office lists]. Accessed 7 January 2023. In the [1886 general election](/source/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election), Plowden was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for [Wolverhampton West](/source/Wolverhampton_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) and held the seat until [1892](/source/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election).{{hansard-contribs | sir-william-plowden | Sir William Plowden }} ==Family== Plowden married Emily Frances Ann Bass (1841–1915), the eldest daughter of Michael Thomas Bass Jr., MP for Derby and his wife, Eliza Jane Arden. Emily was the sister of [Lord Burton](/source/Michael_Arthur_Bass) and [Hamar Alfred Bass](/source/Hamar_Alfred_Bass). The Plowdens lived at Aston Rowant House, Oxfordshire, and at 5 Park Crescent, Portland Place. They had a daughter, Margaret who married Hubert Mostyn, 7th [Lord Vaux](/source/Baron_Vaux_of_Harrowden).{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} ==Publications== *{{cite web |title=Report on the census of British India, taken on the 17th February 1881. |url=https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay/alma999879524401631/44MAN_INST:MU_NUI |website=www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk |publisher=Eyre and Spottiswoode |language=en |date=1883}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-william-plowden | William Plowden }} {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title= [Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton West](/source/Wolverhampton_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | before= [Alfred Hickman](/source/Sir_Alfred_Hickman%2C_1st_Baronet) | after= [Sir Alfred Hickman](/source/Sir_Alfred_Hickman%2C_1st_Baronet) | years= [1886](/source/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1892](/source/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election) }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Plowden, William Chichele}} Category:1832 births Category:1915 deaths Category:British people in British India Category:People from the Bengal Presidency Category:People educated at Harrow School Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1886–1892 Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [William Chichele Plowden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chichele_Plowden) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chichele_Plowden?action=history)). 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