Alison Plowden
Born on December 18, 1931 in Quetta, then in British India, Alison Plowden was a descendant of the great Elizabethan jurist Edmund Plowden and was also a "founding relative" of All Souls, Oxford through her ancestor Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury and co-founder of the university in 1438
Her father, Miles, worked in the Attorney General's department during the Raj, but his marriage failed and, shortly before World War II, Alison returned to England with her mother. In 1948, her mother married Major General H. Lowry ("Taffy") Davies, a military service officer (DSO), member of the Order of the British Empire (MC), who would later become the official historian of the Far East campaign for the Cabinet. As a child, Alison was educated by a governess and attended a private school in Bournemouth, where she devoured romantic historical novels. After school, she took a secretarial course and began her working life as a secretary, typing scripts for the BBC.
Her father, Miles, worked in the Attorney General's department during the Raj, but his marriage failed and, shortly before World War II, Alison returned to England with her mother. In 1948, her mother married Major General H. Lowry ("Taffy") Davies, a military service officer (DSO), member of the Order of the British Empire (MC), who would later become the official historian of the Far East campaign for the Cabinet. As a child, Alison was educated by a governess and attended a private school in Bournemouth, where she devoured romantic historical novels. After school, she took a secretarial course and began her working life as a secretary, typing scripts for the BBC.
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