David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Three sons of Andrew Planché and Sarah his wife, named Paul, James, and William, were registered at Derby. The youngest son of Paul, and brother of Andrew, was Jacques, baptised at the French Church in Leicester-Fields, London, in 1734, his sponsor being Jacques de Guion de Pampeleonne. [1] He was a watchmaker, and married the only child of his uncle, Antoine Planché. James Robinson Planché, his son, born in London, 27th February 1796, is the subject of this memoir. In 1818 he made his successful debut as a dramatic author. ”

“ The first refugee names on record are his sons or grandsons, Paul, Antoine, and Pierre Antoine Planché, or Planchet. Antoine married Mary Thomas, and had an only child, a daughter. Pierre Antoine, East India merchant of London in 1763, was, by his wife, Sarah Douglas, the father of Captain John Douglas Planché of the 60th Foot (who died on active service in the West Indies in 1812) , and grandfather of James Planché, a settler in America. We return to Paul Planché, who married, in 1723, Marie Anne Fournier, and had five sons. ”

“ One of these sons was Andrew Planché (born 1728, died at Bath after 1804) , the first maker of china (porcelain) in Derby, who, in his humble residence in Lodge Lane, “modelled and made small articles in china, principally animals — birds, cats, dogs, lambs, &c. ”