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[[File:Alfred_Chichele_Plowden_Vanity_Fair_16_December_1908.jpg|thumb|"Wit and Wisdom". Caricature of Alfred Chichele Plowden by [[Leslie Ward|Spy]] in [[Vanity Fair (UK magazine)|Vanity Fair]], 16 December 1908]]<br />
'''Alfred Chichele Plowden''' (21 October 1844, [[Meerut]], [[British India]] – 8 August 1914, [[South Kensington]]) was an English barrister and [[Metropolitan Police]] magistrate of the [[Marlborough Street Magistrates Court]]. He wrote an autobiography which was published in 1903 by [[T. Fisher Unwin]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Plowden, Alfred Chichele|title=Grain or chaff? The autobiography of a police magistrate|year=1903|location=London|publisher=T. Fisher Unwin|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006555922}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Grain or Chaff'' by Alfred Chichele Plowden|journal=The Athenaeum|issue= 3872|page=793|date=12 December 1903|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jr05AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA793|last1=Buckingham|first1=James Silk|last2=Sterling|first2=John|last3=Maurice|first3=Frederick Denison|last4=Stebbing|first4=Henry|last5=Dilke|first5=Charles Wentworth|last6=Hervey|first6=Thomas Kibble|last7=Dixon|first7=William Hepworth|last8=MacColl|first8=Norman|last9=Rendall|first9=Vernon Horace|last10=Murry|first10=John Middleton}}</ref><br />
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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 [[William Grey (governor)|Sir William Grey]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Grain or chaff?|page=19|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t9k36cj0k;view=1up;seq=35}}</ref> After education at [[Westminster School]],<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite journal|title=Plowden, Alfred Chichele|year=1914|journal=Who's Who|page= 1676|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3453342;view=1up;seq=1710}}</ref> Alfred Plowden matriculated on 12 June 1862 at [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] and graduated there B.A. in 1866.<ref name=AlumOxon>{{cite book|title=Alumni oxonienses; the members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886|volume=3|page=1122|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435021497789;view=1up;seq=325}}</ref> From 1866 to 1868 he was private secretary to his uncle Sir [[John Peter Grant]], Governor of Jamaica.<ref name=WhoWho/><ref>{{cite book|title=Grain or chaff?|pages=70–81|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t9k36cj0k;view=1up;seq=86}}</ref> Upon his return to England, Alfred Plowden read for the bar and was appointed barrister-at-law in the [[Middle Temple]] in 1870. He was recorder of [[Much Wenlock]] from 1879 to 1888 and became magistrate at Marlborough Street Magistrates Court in 1888,<ref name=AlumOxon/> remaining magistrate there until his death in 1914. He was also a revising barrister in [[Oxfordshire]] from 1882 to 1888.<ref name=WhoWho/><br />
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In the summer of 1883 at the Anglican [[St. Michael's Church, Chester Square]] in [[Chester Square]] he married his cousin Evelyn Foster, daughter of General Sir Charles Foster.<ref>{{cite book|title=Grain or chaff?|pages=195–196|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t9k36cj0k;view=1up;seq=211}}</ref> Upon his death Alfred Plowden was survived by his widow, two sons, and a daughter.<ref name=WhoWho/><br />
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==Further reading==<br />
[https://ia904603.us.archive.org/3/items/recordsofchichel00plow/recordsofchichel00plow.pdf "Records of the Chicheley Plowdens, A.D. 1590-1913"]<br />
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Alfred-Chichele-Plowden-124855.htm|title=Alfred Chichele Plowden. A ''carte-de-visite'' portrait of Alfred Chichele Plowden (1844-1914). Photographed by G.W. Davis of Kingston, Jamaica.}}<br />
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