Charles Bushe Plunket, Death 21 Dec 1880, At Sea

Colonies And India, 1 January 1881, Page 25

The Hon. C. B. Plunket. - We have to record the death, on December 21, of the Hon. Charles Bushe Plunket, Chief Magistrate of Police at Hongkong, on his voyage home to England on sick leave. The second son of John, third Lord Plunket, and brother of the present peer, Mr. Plunket was born in June 1830, his mother being Charlotte, third daughter of the late Right hon. Charles Kendall Bushe, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in due course, and was called to the Irish Bar in Hilary term, 1866. He was appointed Commissioner of the Court of Reports at Penang in 1862, and Police Magistrate at Singapore from 1869 to 1871, when he was appointed Commissioner of Police at the Straits Settlements. In 1876 he became Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hongkong. Mr. Plunket married in 1860, Emmeline, daughter of Mr. Robert Murrell, by whom he has left a youthful family.

Straits Times Overland Journal, 25 January 1881, Page 6

Many old residents here and perhaps more Straits residents at home will learn with regret of the death of the Hon. Charles Bushe Plunket on board the mail steamer off Malta when on his way home for his health. He was no longer in the public service of the Colony, but the best years of his life were spent in the Straits, and many will remember him twenty years ago as the active cheery Lieutenant of Mr. Dunman, Commissioner of Police. His genial disposition and warm Irish heart made him very popular here and in Penang, and, we have reason to believe, made him equally so in Hongkong, where he was appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court in 1876. Mr. Plunket was one of the few remaining links connecting the Indian regime here with the Colonial, and as an official was remarkable for his invariable courtesy and consideration for the outside public. In 1875, shortly before his appointment to Hongkong he was one of the Commissioners appointed by H. E. Sir William Jervois to inquire into the complicity of the Sultan and Chiefs of Perak in the murrder of the Resident, Mr. Birch. and his good service in this inquiry was acknowledged by Sir William Jervois. The Colonial Office List conttains the following brief record of Mr. Plunket's appointments :--- Plunket, The Hon. C.B. --- Commissioner of the Court of requests, Penang, 29th Oct., 1862 ; commissioner of Police, Straits Settlements, 1871 ; registrar of the Supreme Court, Hongkong, 1876 ; police magistrate 1879.