Edward Plunket Taylor ( January 29, 1901 – May 14, 1989 ) was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses.

The outburst was elicited when Maharey was questioned by Jonathan Coleman about the appropriateness of his actions as broadcasting minister threatening to complain to the Radio New Zealand board when he was displeased by a host Sean Plunket referring to a comment Maharey had made about the need for the Cambridge exam in Botswana as ' racist.

It was created in 1827 for the prominent Irish lawyer and Whig politician William Plunket.

David Plunket, second son of the third Baron, was a Conservative politician and was created Baron Rathmore in 1895.

Benjamin Plunket, second son of the fourth Baron, was Bishop of Meath from 1919 to 1925.

Similar incidents took place including one in which French pursuit was so close there was not time enough for Paget, commander of the British rear guard, to complete the hanging of three British soldiers, as an example, for the pillaging a Spanish town. The gallant French cavalry General Colbert, considered the most handsome man in the French army, was killed while in hot, close pursuit across the bridge at the village of Cacabello by a remarkably long-range rifle shot fired by Thomas Plunket of the 95th Rifles after driving off the British 15th Hussars and riding down the Riflemen, capturing about 50.

William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket PC ( Ire ) ( 1 July 1764 – 5 January 1854 ) was an Irish politician and lawyer who eventually became Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

After the Act of Union was passed, Plunket lost his seat, and failed to be elected to Westminster for the University of Dublin in 1802, but he subsequently became Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1803, a post he held for two years before becoming Attorney-General for Ireland, again for two years.

In 1827, Plunket was ennobled in the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Plunket, of Newton in County Cork.

William Lee Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, GCMG, KCVO, KBE ( 19 December 1864 – 24 January 1920 ) was a British diplomat and administrator.

Lord Plunket died on 24 January 1920 aged 55 in 40 Elvaston Place, London, and was buried in the city's Putney Vale Cemetery.

Monument to William Conyngham Fourth Baron Plunket in Kildare Street, Dublin near Leinster House William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket ( 26 August 1828 – 1 April 1897 ) was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ireland.

Born in Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket and Charlotte Bushe.

His daughter Anne ( 1839 – 1889 ) married William, Lord Plunket in 1863.

Her second husband, whom she married in 1922, was Terence Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket, and with him she had three sons: Patrick Plunket, 7th Baron Plunket, Robin Plunket, 8th Baron Plunket, and the Hon Shaun Plunket.

His parents were William, 4th Lord Plunket, the archbishop of Dublin in 1884-97, and his wife Anne, the daughter of Sir Benjamin Guinness.

His mother was Charlotte, daughter of Charles Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, while the Most Reverend William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin, was his elder brother.

Katherine Frances Plunket, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket.

* 1559 John Plunket

* 1562 John Plunket, by a new patent

* John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket ( 1793 – 1871 )

Plunket was the third son of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket, second son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

* Harry Plunket Greene, Irish singer

David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, QC ( 3 December 1838 – 22 August 1919 ) was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.

After practising on the Munster Circuit for a number of years, Plunket was made a Queen's Counsel in 1868, and became legal adviser to the Irish government that same year.

" The following year, Harty's arrangement of Irish songs was included alongside works of Stanford and Vaughan Williams at a recital by Harry Plunket Greene.

* 14 October-Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever ( born 1820 ).

Saint Oliver Plunkett ( Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid ; alternative spelling Plunket ) ( 1 November 1629 – 1 July 1681 ) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

* Lieutenant-Colonel The Lord Plunket, KCVO Irish Guards 1954 – 1975

Its most notable features are Plunket College of Further Education, St. Aidan's Christian Brothers School ( whose past pupils include the former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and the international footballer Liam Brady ), and the Holy Child Roman Catholic Church, a large redbrick church which is a well-known landmark to travellers on the N1.

He was born in County Meath, son of Sir Thomas Plunket, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland ; he was a close relative of another Sir Thomas Plunket who became Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

* Thomas Span Plunket, 2nd Baron Plunket ( 1792 – 1866 )

* Patrick Terence William Span Plunket, 7th Baron Plunket ( 1923 – 1975 )

** William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, British diplomat and administrator ( b. 1864 )

These were succeeded by the Oliver Plunket Band which survived until 2005.

* Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton, P. C., Timothy Healy: Memories and Anecdotes.

* The Plunket Shield competition is introduced in New Zealand ahead of the 1906 – 07 season.

The shield is donated by William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, the Governor-general of New Zealand.

In 1874 and again in 1875, he presided over the Reunion Conferences held at Bonn and attended by leading ecclesiastics from the British Isles and from the Oriental non-Roman Churches, among whom were Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of Lincoln ; Bishop Harold Browne of Ely ; Lord Plunket, archbishop of Dublin ; Lycurgus, Greek Orthodox archbishop of Syros and Tenos ; Canon Liddon ; and the Russian Orthodox Professor Ossmnine of St. Petersburg.

Large estate on several acres, seat of David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore.

The longest period of time where there have been no known living supercentenarian in the world ( since the first verifiable case in the late 19th century ) occurred between 14 October 1932, when Katherine Plunket died, and 20 August 1952, when Betsy Baker turned 110-a period of nearly 20 years.

She assisted in a number of educational and child-care organisations, such as the Plunket Society.

Similarly, in New Zealand, the Plunket Shield is contested but then there is no first-class cricket until 1918.

E. P. Taylor: the biography of Edward Plunket Taylor ( 1978 ) McClelland & Stewart ISBN 0-7710-7709-2

Baron Plunket, of Newtown in the County of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

After the sixth baron and his wife were killed in an air accident in 1938, the three Plunket brothers were raised by an aunt and uncle.

* Robin Rathmore Plunket, 8th Baron Plunket ( b. 1925 )