Sir Thomas Plumer

(1753-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Plumer, Thomas, Sir, 1753-1824 NRA: Plumer Sir Thomas (1753-1824) Knight Master of the Rolls DNB: Plumer, Sir Thomas (1753-1824), judge and politician LBT ID: ThPlume1824 VIAF ID: 77800408 LOC ID: n86104926	B/BAP: 1753-10-10 DIED: 1824-03-24
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English barrister educated at Eton and University College, Oxford; he was attorney general (1812), vice-chancellor (1813), and master of the rolls (1818).
REFERENCES TO Sir Thomas Plumer: William Godwin to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 4 March 1812 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 8 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 54 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VIII. 1811-1814