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Robert Plumptre | |
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| Born | 1723 |
| Died | 1788 |
| Education | Queens' College |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, Priest |
| Years active | 1744-1788 |
| Title | President of Queens' College |
| Predecessor | William Sedgwick |
| Successor | Isaac Milner |
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Robert Plumptre (1723–1788) was an English churchman and academic, who served asPresident ofQueens' College, Cambridge from 1760 until his death in 1788.
He was the youngest of ten children of John Plumptre ofNottinghamshire and the grandson ofHenry Plumptre. He was educated by Dr. Henry Newcome atNewcome's School inHackney, and matriculated as a pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge, on 11 July 1741. He proceeded to earn a B.A. (1744), M.A. (1748), and a D.D. (1761) from Queens.
On 21 March 1745, Plumptre was elected fellow of his college.[1] In 1752 he was instituted to the rectory ofWimpole,Cambridgeshire, on the presentation ofPhilip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke; at the same time he held the vicarage ofWhaddon. In 1756, Lord Hardwicke made himprebendary ofNorwich Cathedral. He was elected president of Queens' College in 1760, and in 1769 he was given the senior professorship,Professor of Casuistry. He held these offices, together with his preferments, till his death. He was vice-chancellor from 1760-1761 and from 1777-1778.
Plumptre was interested in the history of his college, and he left some manuscript collections for historical records. He supported the movement inaugurated byJohn Jebb in favour of annual examinations. He was a member of the syndicate appointed on 17 February 1774 to devise a scheme for carrying them out, which was rejected on 19 April of the same year. He is also stated to have favoured granting relief to the clergy, who petitioned against subscription to theThirty-nine Articles in 1772. He published a pamphlet calledHints Respecting some of the University Officers in 1782, of which a second edition appeared in 1802. His Latin poetry appears among the congratulatory verses published by the university in 1761 for the 1762 marriage ofGeorge III, on the birth of a Prince of Wales, and in 1763 on therestoration of peace. Plumptre died atNorwich on 29 October 1788. There is a tablet in his memory on the south side of the presbytery.
In September 1756, he married Anne, the second daughter of his former schoolmaster, Dr. Henry Newcome. He had ten children with her, including the authorAnne Plumptre and dramatistJames Plumptre.His daughterAnnabella (or Bell) wrote the bookDomestic Management; or, the Healthful Cookery-book: to which is prefixed, a treatise on diet (London: B. & R. Crosby, 1810), published several novels, and translated A. W. Iffland's playDie Jäger and other German works from German to English. (The Foresters. London: Vernor & Hood, 1799)[2][3][4]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: "Plumptre, Robert".Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.| Academic offices | ||
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