PLUMRIDGE, Sir James Hanway (son of James Plumridge of London, architect). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 1787; entered navy 6 Sept. 1799; commander 7 June 1814; commanded the Sappho brig at St. Helena and on the Irish station 1818–21; captain 9 Oct. 1822; captain of the Magicienne frigate in the East Indies 1831–5; superintendent of the Falmouth packets 7 April 1837 to 1841; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1841–7; storekeeper of the ordnance 23 June 1842 to 1847; second in command on the East Indies station 1847–50; R.A. 7 Oct. 1852; commanded the flying squadron in the Baltic 7 March 1854 to Feb. 1855; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 19 Feb. 1855 to 4 Dec. 1857; member of order of St. John of Jerusalem 12 Dec. 1857; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; V.A. 28 Nov. 1857; admiral of the blue 27 April 1863. d. Hopton hall, near Lowestoft 29 Nov. 1863. G. B. Earp’s History of the Baltic campaign from documents furnished by sir C. Napier (1857) 45, 620.
PLUNKET, William Conyngham Plunket, 1 Baron (youngest son of Thomas Plunket, presbyterian minister, Enniskillen, d. Dublin; 1778). b. Enniskillen 1 July 1764; matric. in univ. of Dublin 1779; scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1781; B.A. 1784; LL.B 1787, LL.D. 1799; called to Irish bar Jany. 1787; K.C. 1797; M.P. Charlemont, co. Armagh, in Irish parliament 1798–1800; appeared for the prosecution on the trial of Robert Emmett for rebellion Sept. 1803; solicitor general for Ireland 5 Nov. 1803 to 1805; attorney general 23 Oct. 1805 to 15 May 1807, and 15 Jany. 1822 to 18 June 1827; M.P. Midhurst 26 Jany. to 29 April 1807; M.P. Trinity college, Dublin univ. 1812–27; succeeded Henry Grattan as champion of the Roman Catholic claims 1820; P.C. 10 May 1827 and 23 March 1831; chief justice of Irish court of common pleas 18 June 1827 to 23 Dec. 1830; created baron Plunket of Newton, co. Cork 1 May 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland 23 Dec. 1830 to Nov. 1834, and 30 April 1835 to 17 June 1841. d. Old Connaught, co. Wicklow 4 Jany. 1854. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. Dublin 7 Jany. D. Plunket’s Life of lord Plunket, 2 vols. (1867) portrait; W. H. Curran’s Sketches of the Irish bar i 127–53 (1855); O’Flanagan’s Lord chancellors of Ireland ii 403–621 (1870); R. L. Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish bar i 98, 119, ii 377 (1854); Dublin Univ. mag. xv 258–66 (1840) portrait; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 157–210; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 210–45; Law Review xix 225–48 (1854); Law mag. and review xix 44–9 (1865); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv 80 (1848) portrait; I.L.N. xxiv 38, 58 (1854) portrait; J. C. Hoey’s Speeches of lord Plunket (1856).
PLUNKET, Thomas Span Plunket, 2 Baron (eld. son of preceding). b. Dublin 1792; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, and at Trin. Dublin, M.A. 1822, B.D. and D.D. 1840; dean of Down 8 Oct. 1831; bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 1839 to death, consecrated at Ch. Ch. Dublin; P.C. Ireland 1846; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1851 to death; succeeded as 2 baron 5 Jany. 1854. d. Lommakeady lodge, co. Galway 19 Oct. 1866.
PLUNKET, John Span Plunket, 3 Baron (brother of preceding). b. 10 July 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1822; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 1 July 1837; leading counsel for the crown in Dublin and on the Munster circuit; assistant barrister for co. Meath; bencher of King’s Inns 1849; succeeded as 3 baron Plunket 19 Oct. 1866. d. St. Valarey, Bray, co. Dublin 16 April 1871. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery. Irish Law times v 200 (1871); I.L.N. lviii 427 (1871).
PLUNKETT, Charles Dawson (3 son of 11 baron Louth 1757–1823). b. 1813; ensign 1 foot 11 Oct. 1833, lieut. col. 26 June 1866, retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. 18 Nov. 1868; served in Crimean war 1855; knight of the legion of honour 1857. d. Killiney, co. Dublin 19 May 1886.
PLUNKETT, James. Called to Irish bar 1826, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. 47 Mountjoy square, Dublin 5 Aug. 1872.
PLUNKETT, John Hubert (younger twin son of George Plunkett of Roscommon). b. Mount Plunkett, co. Roscommon June 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1826, went Connaught circuit; solicitor general of New South Wales Oct. 1831 to 1836, attorney general 1836–56; member of legislative council 1831–56; chairman of National school board 1848–56; retired on a pension 1856; member for Argyle in legislative assembly 1856; member of legislative council 1857–8, and president Jany. 1857 to Feb. 1858; president of the board of education to Feb. 1858; minister without a portfolio of the Martin government Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865; author of The Australian magistrate, or a guide to the duties of a justice of the peace, Sydney 1840, 4 ed. 1866; The magistrate’s pocket book 1859; On the evidence of accomplices 1863. d. Burlington terrace, East Melbourne 9 May 1869. bur. Sydney 15 May. Heads of the people, Sydney, i 93 (1847) portrait; P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 374.
PLUNKETT, Patrick. Called to Irish bar 1824; bencher of King’s Inns 1851 to death; judge of court of bankrupts and insolvents 1 Nov. 1857 to death. d. Kingstown, Dublin 31 July 1859.
PLUNKETT, Randal Edward Sherborne (1 son of 16 baron Dunsany 1808–89). b. Sherborne, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1848; educ. Eton 1862–5, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1872; took honours 3 class Mods 1869 and second law and history 1871; captain Gloucestershire rifle volunteers 8 July 1874; M.P. West Gloucestershire 1874–80. d. Madeira 25 Dec. 1883.
PLUNKETT, Thomas Oliver Westenra (2 son of 12 baron Louth 1809–49). b. 1 April 1838; ensign 1 foot 5 Jany. 1855, captain 20 May 1864, sold out 27 July 1866; served at siege of Sebastopol from 29 Aug. 1855, and in campaign in China 1860; resident magistrate at Cork 1866, divisional magistrate in charge of Cork, Kerry and Limerick 1881–6; assisted sir Redvers Buller in reorganising the constabulary patrols and the methods of criminal investigation; magistrate and divisional commissioner in Cork, Limerick and part of Kerry, the Ponsonby and Kingston estates were in Kerry, had much to do with evictions of tenants and the affair at Mitchelstown 1887; quelled disturbances at Youghall, Midleton and Cork; struck on the head while opposing a Plan of campaign meeting on the Ponsonby estate. d. Cork 6 Dec. 1880. bur. Louth 9 Dec. Times 7 Dec. 1889 p. 10, 10 Dec. p. 7, 11 Dec. p. 5.