| 词条 | Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden |
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CareerBefore the Second World War, Plowden joined C Tennant Sons & Co, commodity dealers. As he spoke French and German and knew the European mainland well, he was put in charge of selling Palestine potash, in competition with the European potash cartel; he did so to such effect that his firm, as it had hoped, was invited to join the cartel. During the war, he served in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and later joined the Ministry of Aircraft Production, in which he remained until 1946. During 1945–46 he was chief executive in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman.[2] He returned after the War to the private sector, but then was appointed Chief Planning Officer to the Cabinet Office in March 1947. The group was called the Central Economic Planning Staff and Plowden headed it for over six years..[3] The Korean War“I was at this stage put in charge of a working party set up to formulate an official reply to the Americans and, over the next year or so, was to be responsible for the general economic supervision of the rearmament programme.” [4] The Conservative GovernmentRab Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951-55) inherited Plowden after the Conservatives took power in 1951. He commented, “But I depended on Edwin Plowden, as head of the economic planning staff, to interpret and give practical edge to the advice generated by the less voluble and extrovert Hall (Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall), to act as vulgarisateur or publicist for his ideas. Plowden was to be my faithful watchdog in chief, and his departure for industry in 1953 undoubtedly weakened my position and that of the British economy.”[5]HonoursPlowden was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1946 Birthday Honours,[6] a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1951 Birthday Honours[7] and was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1987 Birthday Honours.[8] He was created a life peer with the title Baron Plowden, of Plowden in the county of Shropshire on 17 February 1959.[9] Personal lifeHis wife, Bridget (née Bridget Horatia Richmond; 1910–2000), chaired the group which authored and published the 1967 Plowden Report on primary education. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).[10] DeathEdwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Baron Plowden died of hypertension in 2001, aged 94, one year after his wife's death.[1] He predeceased his two sons and one daughter while another daughter predeceased both Sir Edwin and Dame Bridget Plowden.[11] Styles of address
References1. ^1 {{cite odnb|id=75432|title=Plowden, Edwin Noel Auguste, Baron Plowden (1907–2001), industrialist and public servant|authorlink=Peter Jay (diplomat)|last=Jay|first=Peter}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Plowden, Edwin Plowden, Baron}}2. ^{{cite news|last=Cairncross|first=Alec|authorlink=Alec Cairncross|title=Lord Plowden of Plowden dies|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/17/guardianobituaries|accessdate=20 August 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=17 February 2001}} 3. ^Edwin Plowden 1989: An Industrialist in the Treasury – The Post War Years. {{ISBN|0 233 98364 3}} p.8 4. ^Edwin Plowden 1989: An Industrialist in the Treasury – The Post War Years. {{ISBN|0 233 98364 3}} p.98 5. ^Lord Butler 1971: The Art of the Possible {{ISBN|0 14 00 3608 3}} p.159 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=37598 |date=13 June 1946|page=2783|supp=y}} 7. ^{{London Gazette|issue=39243|date=7 June 1951|page=3063|supp=y}} 8. ^{{London Gazette|issue=50948 |date=13 June 1987|page=6|supp=y}} 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=41637|date=17 February 1959|page=1164}} 10. ^{{cite news|last=Corbett|first=Anne|title=Obituary for Bridget, Lady Plowden|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/03/guardianobituaries.education|accessdate=19 July 2010|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 October 2000}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=Lord Plowden|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1322916/Lord-Plowden.html|accessdate=31 March 2016|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 February 2001}} 8 : 1907 births|2001 deaths|Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire|Crossbench life peers|Deaths from hypertension|Place of birth missing|Place of death missing |
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