Sir William Chichele Plowden KCSI (1832 – 4 September 1915) was a Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council in India, and subsequently a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1886 to 1892.
William Chichele Plowden was born in 1832,[1] to William Plowden FRS MP of Ewhurst Park and his wife Jane Annette Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell.
[3] He was in the Bengal Civil Service as Census Commissioner for India and Secretary of the Board of Revenue of the North West Provinces.
The Plowdens lived at Aston Rowant House, Oxfordshire, and at 5 Park Crescent, Portland Place.
They had a daughter, Margaret who married Hubert Mostyn, 7th Lord Vaux.