About Thomas Percy Plowden
Lived 1672 – 1745 (aged 72–73). Thomas Percy Plowden was a translator.
Thomas Percy Plowden (born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 September 1745) was an English Jesuit administrator.
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 Paolo Segneri's Devout Client of the Blessed Virgin, and wrote the preface to it. He died at the novitiate of Watten.
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British Jesuit
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Thomas Percy Plowden died on 21 September 1745.
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Thomas Percy Plowden was a translator.
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