Plunkett, William, High Holborn, London, cm and broker (1745). On 6 March 1745 married widow Horne at the Church of St George, Bloomsbury. He was described as ‘wealthy’ and she as ‘a gentlewoman of great accomplishments and a very handsome fortune’. A Thomas Plukenett was trading as a cm in High Holborn, 1750–63, and may well have been related. [General Advertiser, 8 March 1745]