1631, was ‘accounted the best physician at Nottingham,’ and was the author of a rare work, ‘Epigrammaton Opusculum duobus Libellis distinctum,’ London, 1629, 12mo, which he dedicated to Sir John Byron; one copy was presented to Francis Prujean, and another to the library of St. John's College, Cambridge.

He also translated Homer's ‘Batrachomyomachia’ into Latin verse (Wood, Fasti, ii.

The father Henry was implicated in a disturbance that arose out of James II's proceedings against the charter of Nottingham corporation, and at the trial his name afforded Jeffreys an opportunity for one of his brutal pleasantries.

Henry, born at Nottingham, was admitted a pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge, on 19 Jan. 1697–8, and graduated B.A.

On 15 February 1702–3 he was elected fellow of his college, but vacated the office by not taking orders on 4 July 1707.

He was author of: He is also said to have written a pamphlet entitled ‘A serious Conference between Scaramouch and Harlequin,’ with reference to the controversy then raging between Dr. John Woodward and Dr. John Freind, and he devoted much time and energy to the fifth ‘Pharmacopœia Londinensis’ which appeared in 1746.

His son, Russell Plumptre (1709–1793), born on 4 January 1709, was admitted pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge, on 12 June 1728, proceeded M.B.

1738; he was admitted candidate of the College of Physicians on 30 September 1738, and fellow on 1 Octobter 1739.