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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 982 |  | Surname | Plowden | | | Title | Sir | | | Christian Names | William Chicheley | | | Decorations | KCSI | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1850-52 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1852-85 | | | Annuitant | 1885 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Meerut and Census Commissioner for India | | | Mutiny Service | Was Assistant Commissioner at Umballa, and carried the despatches announcing the outbreak at Meerut to the Commander-in-Chief at Simla. Plowden was in political charge of a Squadron of Cavalry and two Companies of Infantry sent to open up the road from Umballa to Meerut. They reached Seharanpore in time to enable Spankie to hold that district till strengthened by a Goorkha Regiment, and in concert with the latter punished several rebellious villages. Plowden and his column then returned to Jugadree in his own district, keeping up and guarding the bridge of boats at Rajghat. He co-operated with Forsyth in the pursuit of the mutineers from Jullunder and followed them through Seharanpore. By this time most of the Sepoys in the Column had mutinied, and the Cavalry had to be recalled to Umballa and disbanded as untrustworthy, but their place was supplied by a squadron of the 9th Irregular Cavalry (also under strong suspicion), and with these and his Sikh levies Plowden maintained his position, keeping up the bridge of boats, though ordered to destroy it, till the rains carried it away. In November ill-health, consequent on the exposure, forced him to retire to Simla, but his invaluable work had been completed successfully. |
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