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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Sir Henry Plowden<br />
| image = <br />
| country = England<br />
| fullname = Henry Meredyth Plowden<br />
| nickname = <br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1840|9|26|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Sylhet]], [[Assam]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1920|1|8|1840|9|26|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Sunninghill, Berkshire|Sunninghill]], [[Berkshire]], England<br />
| heightft = <br />
| heightinch = <br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = Right-arm [[Roundarm bowling|roundarm]] [[off break]]<br />
| role = <br />
| family = <br />
| club3 = [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]]<br />
| year3 = 1865<br />
| club2 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]<br />
| year2 = 1863–1866<br />
| club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]<br />
| year1 = {{nowrap|1860–1863}}<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 15<br />
| runs1 = 248<br />
| bat avg1 = 13.05<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1<br />
| top score1 = 69[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries1 = 1,173<br />
| wickets1 = 56<br />
| bowl avg1 = 12.83<br />
| fivefor1 = 5<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 7/25<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 10/–<br />
| date = 25 January<br />
| year = 2010<br />
| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18552.html Cricinfo<br />
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'''Sir Henry Meredyth Chichele Plowden''' (26 September 1840 – 8 January 1920) was an English [[first-class cricket]]er.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6802/6802.html | title = Henry Plowden| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 2 August 2015}}</ref> Plowden was a right-handed [[Batsman (cricket)|batsman]] who bowled right-arm [[Roundarm bowling|roundarm]] [[off break]]. He was educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/94/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Henry Plowden | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 5 | page = 139 | access-date = 2 August 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Cricket career==<br />
Plowden made his first-class debut for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] against [[Cambridge Town Club]] in 1860 and represented Cambridge University in ten first-class matches from 1860 to 1863, with his final first-class match for the university coming against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] in 1863.<ref name="ca"/> In his ten matches for the university, Plowden scored 139 runs at an [[Batting average (cricket)|average]] of 11.58, making a single half century which yielded his highest first-class score of 69[[not out|*]]. With the ball he took 44 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 10.58, with best figures of 7-25, one of four five-wicket hauls for the university. He also played for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] in 1863 against Oxford University. In 1865 he made his debut for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]], playing a single first-class match for the county against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]]. He made scores of 34 and 3 and took two wickets in this game. Plowden's final first-class match came in 1866 for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire.<br />
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Overall Plowden played 15 first-class matches, scoring 248 runs at an [[Batting average (cricket)|average]] of 13.05, with a top score of 69[[not out|*]]. With the ball he took 56 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 12.83, with best figures of 7/25 which was one of five five-wicket hauls.<br />
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==Law career==<br />
Plowden was the Government Advocate at [[Lahore]] from 1870 to 1877 and [[Judge]] of the [[List of the Chief Justices of Lahore High Court|Chief Court in the Punjab]] from 1877 to 1894.<ref name="venn"/> He died at [[Sunninghill, Berkshire|Sunninghill]], [[Berkshire]] on 8 January 1920.<br />
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==Family==<br />
He was born in [[Sylhet]], the son of George Augustus Chichele Plowden (1810–1871) and Charlotte Elise née Robertson (1821–1862). In 1887 he married Helen Beadon, daughter of Sir [[Cecil Beadon]] (1816–1880) and his second wife Agnes née Sterndale (1836–1906). They had two daughters Sheila Meredyth Chichele Plowden (1888–?) and Joan Meredith Chichele Plowden (1890–1975).<br />
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{{cite wikisource |first=C. Hayavadana |last=Rao |chapter=Plowden, Sir Henry Meredyth |wslink=The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) |title=The Indian Biographical Dictionary |year=1915 |publisher=Pillar & Co., Madras}}<br />
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