Bridget Horatia Plowden ( 5 May 1910 - 29 September 2000) (Lady Plowden) was a British educational reformer. She chaired the group which produced the 1967 Plowden report on primary education in Britain, and was chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1975 to 1980. Her husband was Edwin Plowden, who became Lord Plowden. [1]