Background
Born at Clifton, Bristol, Plenderleath was the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Plenderleath, of 27, Richmond Terrace, Clifton.
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Born at Clifton, Bristol, Plenderleath was the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Plenderleath, of 27, Richmond Terrace, Clifton.
Wadham College.
Colonel Plenderleath was a half-pay officer of the 49th Regiment of Foot. He had been commissioned into the 89th Regiment of Foot on 29 May 1796, served in the War of 1812, was decorated after the Battle of Crysler"s Farm of 1813, and was a Companion of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank). He was Rector of Cherhill, Wiltshire, from December 1860 to April 1891, and then of Mamhead in Devon from 1891 until 1905, dying on 1 April 1906.
While he was at Cherhill, Plenderleath"s interest in the Cherhill White Horse led him to write a paper, On the White Horses of Wiltshire and Its Neighbourhood (1872) for the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, followed some years later by a book, White Horses of the West of England (1885).
He also kept a notebook of Cherhill"s affairs which was first published in 2001, ninety-five years after the author"s death, as Plenderleath"s Memoranda of Cherhill. He intended this as a record of "what an English country village was in the 19th century, as portrayed by one who had the best opportunities of knowing".
At Mamhead, from 1891, Plenderleath also kept notes of his parish, described as "Includes census details (official and unofficial), offertory accounts, list of communions, collections in aid of voluntary church rate, and confirmations. In the front is a linen-backed map showing inhabited houses in Mamhead".
The 1881 census for The Rectory, Cherhill, gives a snapshot of Plenderleath"s household.
Five domestic servants are also recorded, a cook, a footman, a lady"s maid, and two housemaids. On 20 April 1881, at Cherhill, Plenderleath"s daughter Maud Mary Le Fevre Plenderleath married George Bayntun Starky (1858–1926) of Spye Park House, Bromham, Wiltshire, later of Brackenfield Station, Amberley, New Zealand, and they had six sons:
John Bayntun (1882–1944);
George (1883–1959), who served as an officer in the Wiltshire Regiment and became a farmer in New Zealand;
Francis (died 1963), a farmer at Toatoa, near Opotiki, New Zealand;
Walter (1886–1930), an officer in the Somerset Yeomanry who became a sheep farmer in Argentina;
James (1889–1916), who was killed in action during the First World War while serving in the Wiltshire Regiment. A stained glass window at Street James"s church, Cherhill, bears the inscription:.
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Wadham (1883–1953), a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, also a farmer in New Zealand.