Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden
Lord Temporal | |
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In office 17 February 1959 – 15 February 2001 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden 6 January 1907 Strachur, Argyll and Bute, Scotland |
Died | 15 February 2001 | (aged 94)
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse |
Bridget Horatia Richmond (died 2000) |
Parents |
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Education | Hamburg University Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Lord Plowden, GBE, KCB (6 January 1907 – 15 February 2001) was a British industrialist and public servant in the Treasury.[1]
Background and career
Plowden was born in
Having the great misfortune to graduate from university at the beginning of the
During the war, he served in the
He returned after the War to the private sector, but then was appointed Chief Planning Officer to the Cabinet Office in March 1947. The group was called the Central Economic Planning Staff and Plowden headed it for over six years.[3]
Korean War
"I was at this stage put in charge of a working party set up to formulate an official reply to the Americans and, over the next year or so, was to be responsible for the general economic supervision of the rearmament programme."[4]
Conservative Government
Rab Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–55) inherited Plowden after the Conservatives took power in 1951. He commented, "But I depended on Edwin Plowden, as head of the economic planning staff, to interpret and give practical edge to the advice generated by the less voluble and extrovert Hall (Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall), to act as vulgarisateur or publicist for his ideas. Plowden was to be my faithful watchdog in chief, and his departure for industry in 1953 undoubtedly weakened my position and that of the British economy".[5]
Personal life
His wife,
Death
Lord Plowden died of hypertension in 2001, aged 94, one year after his wife's death.[1] He predeceased his two sons and one daughter while another daughter predeceased both Sir Edwin and Dame Bridget Plowden.[7]
Arms
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Plowden was appointed a
He was created a life peer with the title Baron Plowden, of Plowden in the county of Shropshire on 17 February 1959.[12]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75432. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Cairncross, Alec (17 February 2001). "Lord Plowden of Plowden dies". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ Edwin Plowden 1989: An Industrialist in the Treasury – The Post War Years.
ISBN 0 233 98364 3p.8
- ^ Edwin Plowden 1989: An Industrialist in the Treasury – The Post War Years.
ISBN 0 233 98364 3p.98
- ISBN 0 14 00 3608 3p.159
- ^ Corbett, Anne (3 October 2000). "Obituary for Bridget, Lady Plowden". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ "Lord Plowden". The Daily Telegraph. 17 February 2001. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.
- ^ "No. 37598". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1946. p. 2783.
- ^ "No. 39243". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 June 1951. p. 3063.
- ^ "No. 50948". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1987. p. 6.
- ^ "No. 41637". The London Gazette. 17 February 1959. p. 1164.