Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden
Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Baron Plowden (born January 6, 1907 , † February 15, 2001 ) was a British industrialist and official in the HM Treasury .
Life
Until 1929 he attended Pembroke College in Cambridge . On February 17, 1959, he was awarded the title Baron Plowden, of Plowden in the County of Salop . In the 1979/80 session he was a member of the Committee for the European Communities . He died of hypertension . His wife Bridget Plowden (Lady Plowden) chaired a group that wrote the 1967 Plowden Report on Primary Education .
literature
- Alec Cairncross: Lord Plowden of Plowden . In: The Guardian , February 17, 2001. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
- Sir Edwin Plowden , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1955 of January 3, 1955, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Plowden, Edwin Noel Auguste, Baron Plowden (1907-2001), industrialist and public servant by Peter Jay , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Anne Corbett: Lady Plowden . In: The Guardian , October 3, 2000. Retrieved July 19, 2010. Obituary
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SURNAME | Plowden, Edwin, Baron Plowden |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plowden, Edwin Noel Auguste, Baron Plowden |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British industrialist and civil servant in the HM Treasury |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1907 |
DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 2001 |