Born at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, 1672; died at Watten, 21 Sept., 1745; 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 St. Omers, 1739-42. He translated Father Segneri's "Devout Client of the Blessed Virgin", and wrote the preface to it. He died at the novitiate of Watten.
FOLEY, records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, IV, VII.
APA citation. (1911). Thomas Percy Plowden. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12168d.htm
MLA citation. "Thomas Percy Plowden." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12168d.htm>.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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