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  • Plumptre is a man about 33 or 4, rather taller and perhaps thinner than Mr Fellows, very serious in his manners, a great walker, very widely connected with the world, though he lives in a Colledge, and is so far as I can learn, single.

    Letter 209 2009

  • Plumptre, James, Revd (1770 – 1832): Vicar of Great Gransden in Huntingdonshire, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, an evangelical clergyman who produced bowdlerised versions of popular songs, a comic opera about Lake District tourists (The Lakers), and critiques of Shakespeare.

    Index of People 2009

  • Anne Plumptre (1760-1818) is credited with introducing German plays in London.

    Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

  • Beryl Plumptre has served as an economic consultant to several federal government agencies, including the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, the Tariff Board and the Royal Commission on Coastal Trading.

    Why Not? 1975

  • When our speaker, Mrs. Beryl Plumptre, head of the Food Prices Review Board, advised me that the title of her talk was to be "Why Not?"

    Why Not? 1975

  • Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you the Chairman of the Canadian Food Prices Review Board, Mrs. Beryl Plumptre.

    Why Not? 1975

  • Our guest today, Mrs. Beryl Plumptre, was born in Australia, graduating from the University of Melbourne, after which she did post-graduate work in Economics at Cambridge University, prior to marrying her Canadian husband and coming to Canada in 1938.

    Why Not? 1975

  • The speaker, we found out later, was Mrs.A. F.W. Plumptre.

    This World and the Mind of Man 1969

  • Miss Plumptre, a writer of much research and general accuracy, and whose book would furnish twenty gentlemen-tourists with good materials, has, I believe, been misled as to one circumstance, the disinterment of Mad. de Sevigné, which, as far we could ascertain by inquiry, never took place from causes to which I have just alluded.

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • Not to omit the luxuries of the palate as well as those of the eye, it is worth while to procure at Montelimart a wedge or two of the nogaux, or almond-cakes, which Miss Plumptre so particularly recommends.

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

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