Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Terence Chichele Plowden, CIE (6 February 1883 - 13 July 1956) was a British army officer, military administrator and diplomat who served as political agent of the Baluchistan and Resident and Chief Commissioner of Coorg from 1933 to 1937.
After passing out on 27 August 1902, his name was added to the Unattached List of the Indian Army,[1] until he was in October posted to the Bengal command.
In 1933, Plowden was appointed Resident to the Mysore Kingdom and thus, automatically became Chief Commissioner of Coorg Province.
That very year, Plowden was made an Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.
Plowden retired in 1938 and served as a Press Reader in the British Embassy in Moscow during 1944-45.