Plowden
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| Consul Plowden | |||||
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| Born | 1820 | ||||
| Died | 1860 | ||||
| Occupation | diplomacy | ||||
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Walter Charles Metcalf Chichele Plowden (3 August 1820 – 13 March 1860)[1] was a British diplomat, consul at Massawa on the Red Sea coast from 1848 to his death. He played a role in Ethiopian politics in the mid 19th-century: during his tenure he cultivated the friendship of first Ras Ali, and later the Ethiopian emperor Tewodros
Publications
External Publications
Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country, with an account of a mission to Ras Ali in 1848
published by his brother in 1868
House Publications
The ethnology of Abyssinia, from the report of Consul Plowden, with observations by the President
Read 12 nov 1867
