English model April Ashley. The film Performance, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox, was filmed in Plugge's house in Lowndes Square. Plugge moved to Hollywood, California in 1972, and died there on 19 February 1981 at the age of 91. Family Captain Plugge married (Gertrude) Ann Muckleston (13 January 1909 – 1993) in New York on 28 October 1935, a little over two weeks before he was elected to the House of Commons. They had three children: Leonard Frank (b. 13 January 1937), Greville (4 November 1944 – 1973) and Gale Ann (4 November 1944 – 2 January 1972). Plugge and his wife separated in the early 1950s. His daughter Gale Ann, who had married and divorced Jonathan Benson, was in Trinidad with her partner, the American Black Power leader Hakim Jamal, when she was stabbed and buried alive in January 1972 by Michael X and his supporters, whom Jamal also followed.Underground, Overground History Talk oral history project, undated . Accessed 17 August 2007. Her twin brother, Greville, died in a road accident in Morocco a year later. Etymology of "to plug" In his book Red Herrings and White Elephants, the English language researcher Albert Jack writes that Plugge partially financed Radio Normandy by receiving payments to play and promote records, which is probably the origin of the verb to "plug" a record. However, the Oxford English Dictionary contradicts this suggestion. Rupert Vansittart played Plugge in the 2008 film The Bank Job''. References Bibliography External links Roy Plomley closes down a day's broadcasting by Plugge's Radio Normandy (format: MP3, file hosted at http://www.lmradio.org/Sounds.htm). Radio Normandy Calling – Roy Plomley previews programmes (format: RealAudio) Radio For Sale: Sponsored Programming in British Radio during the 1930s – Sean Street, Bournemouth University British War Cabinet secret memo on Plugge's broadcasting, October 1939 Time, Pioneers, Monday, 21 January 1935 IBC Studio The early days of Radio Normandy (includes pictures of Plugge and of one of Radio Normandy's mobile units) https://web.archive.org/web/20110719142523/http://www.offshoreechos.com/radionormandie/RadioNormandie00.htm 1889 births 1981 deaths Alumni of University College London Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 Pirate radio personalities Royal Navy officers