Christopher Plummer (fl. 1490s – 1530s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1513 to 1535.Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle He was attainted and deprived in 1535.
The writer William Plomer claimed relationship with Plummer, referring to him as ""Christopher Plomer, a canon of Windsor... unfrocked and clapped into the Tower in 1535 for criticizing, as well he might, the behaviour of his royal master, Henry VIII".Double Lives, William Plomer, Noonday Press, 1956, p. 14
Career
He was appointed: Prebendary of Auckland in Durham 1493 Prebendary of Bole in York Minster 1507 Prebendary of Cadington Major in St Paul’s 1515 Prebendary of Welton Beckhall in Lincoln 1533 - 1534 Prebendary of Somerley in Chichester 1516 - 1534
He was appointed to the fourth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1513. For opposing the king's divorce he was attainted and imprisoned in the Tower in 1534, but was pardoned two years later.
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