Thomas Percy Plowden
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Thomas Percy Plowden (born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 September 1745) was an English Jesuit administrator.
[edit] Life
He joined the Society of Jesus in 1693. He was rector of the English College, Rome, 1731-34; superior at Ghent, 1735-39; and rector of the College of St. Omer, 1739-42.
He translated Father Segneri's Devout Client of the Blessed Virgin, and wrote the preface to it. He died at the novitiate of Watten.
[edit] Reference
- Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, IV, VII.
This article incorporates text from the entry Thomas Percy Plowden in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.