Thomas Plowden

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Thomas Plowden (alias Salisbury) (born in Oxfordshire, England, 1594; died in London, 13 February 1664) was an English Jesuit.

[edit] Life

He entered the Society of Jesus, 1617 and was sent on the English Mission about 1622. He was seized, with other fathers, by the pursuivants, in 1628, at Clerkenwell, the London residence of the Jesuits. He filled various responsible offices of the order, and laboured on the perilous English Mission until his death.

He translated from the Italian of Daniello Bartoli The Learned Man Defended and Reformed (London, 1660).

[edit] Family

He was a grandson of Edmund Plowden, the lawyer.

[edit] References

• Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, I, VII.

This article incorporates text from the entry Thomas Plowden in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.