POWELL, Walter (son of a merchant). b. Tottenham, Middlesex May 1822; taken to Tasmania 1823; a clerk at Launceston 1834; clerk to an auctioneer Melbourne 1845–8; went to England 1848, 1856, 1860; conducted a business in the hardware line Melbourne 1849 to death; purchased land on the discovery of the gold fields; connected with the Wesleyan church and many charities; partner with Henry Reed, Australian merchant 6 Broad st. buildings, London 1 Jany. 1861 to death. d. 79 Lancaster gate, London 21 Jany. 1868. bur. Marylebone cemet. Finchley. B. Gregory’s Thorough man of business, W. Powell (1871) portrait.
POWELL, Walter (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b. The Gaer, Newport, Monmouth 17 April 1842; educ. Rugby 1858; a colliery proprietor; M.P. Malmesbury 17 Nov. 1868 to death; resided Dunestay house, near Chippenham; while in the balloon Saladin alone, was carried out to sea from Bridport and not again heard of 10 Dec. 1881, a reward of £200 offered for his recovery. Times 13 Dec. 1881 pp. 6, 9; Graphic xxiv 633 (1881) portrait; I.L.N. lxxix 616 (1881) portrait.
POWELL, Walter Rice Howell (1 son of Walter Rice Howell of Haverfordwest). b. 4 April 1819; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 19 Oct. 1837; sheriff of Carmarthen 1849; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1880–5; M.P. western division of Carmarthenshire 1885 to death; master of fox hounds from 1839; purchased Osbaldeston’s Vanguard and Mayfly, a Welsh hound, the founders of his pack; owner of many steeplechase horses; established the United counties friendly benefit soc. and the Farmers’ benefit soc. at Llanboidy. d. Maesgwynne, near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 25 June 1889. Baily’s Mag. Aug. 1883 pp. 63–4 portrait; Times 27 June 1889 p. 11.
POWELL, William. b. 1814; a Welsh Calvinistic methodist; began to preach 1834, ordained 1837; minister at Pembroke, retired 1893; moderator of the general assembly; a well known preacher. d. Pembroke 12 Aug. 1894.
POWELL, William Edward (elder son of Thomas Powell of Nanteos, Cardiganshire, d. 1797). b. 16 Feb. 1788; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1804; M.P. Cardiganshire 1816–54, having never had a competitor for his seat; lord lieut. of Cardiganshire 26 Oct. 1816 to death; colonel of Cardiganshire militia 15 Dec. 1823 to death; resided Nanteos house, near Aberystwith. d. 7 Hyde park terrace, London 10 April 1854. G.M. xli 648 (1854).
POWELL, William Thomas Rowland (eld. son of the preceding). b. Swansea 4 Aug. 1815; educ. Westminster 1830; ensign 37 foot 1 June 1832, captain 6 April 1838, sold out 1 March 1839; M.P. co. Cardigan 7 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; lieut. col. royal Cardigan militia 25 March 1854, resigned 5 May 1865. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 May 1878.
POWER, Sir Alfred (6 son of John Power, M.D. of Lichfield). b. Market Bosworth 1 Feb. 1805; educ. Repton sch. 1818, and Clare hall, Camb., scholar 1822, Batty university scholar 1823, second in 1 class of classical tripos; fellow of Downing coll. 1826–36, hon. fellow 1885; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830, went midland circuit; factory commissioner 1833; assist. poor law commissioner in England 1834–43, in Ireland 1843; chief comr. of Irish poor laws 1849–73; V.P. of local government board of Ireland 1874, retired on pension of £1,333, 1 March 1879; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871, K.C.B. 27 March 1873; author of A political catechism 1853; Sanitary rhymes, personal precautions against cholera and all kinds of fever 1871. d. 35 Raglan road, Dublin 7 June 1888. New Monthly Mag. cxviii 391, 408 (1880) portrait; Law Journal lxxxvi 184 (1888); The Biograph March and April 1882 pp. 229–32; Times 12 June 1888 p. 5.
POWER, David. b. 1817; barrister L.I. and M.T. 1 May 1840; leading counsel of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Ipswich Nov. 1848, resigned June 1861; Q.C. April 1858, bencher of M.T. 1858 to death; author of The act for registration of voters 1843; The law of qualification and registration of parliamentary electors 1847; Power’s Illustrated hand-book for Gloucester 1848, 2 ed. 1862; with H. Rodwell and E. L. Dew Reports of the decisions of the house of commons in the trial of controverted elections 1853. d. Halstead Place, Kent 10 May 1862.
POWER, Ellen Maria (youngest dau. of Arthur Lingham of York house, Tulse hill, Brixton, Surrey, his wife Agnes d. 24 June 1894). b. London 10 April 1854; made her first appearance at Gordon’s music hall, Southampton 1863; under the name of Nelly Power a singer and dancer at the Canterbury, the Pavilion, and other music halls in London to 1870; gave exact imitations of George Leybourne; took the principal parts in pantomimes at the Surrey theatre under William Holland’s management; acted the Elf in Robinson Crusoe pantomime, Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1868; acted Don Roderigo in Don Carlos 16 April 1870, the earl of Essex in Elizabeth 17 Nov. 1870, prince Precious in the Orange tree and the humble bee 13 May 1871, the princess Badoura in Camaralzaman 22 Nov. 1871, Glaucus in The very last days of Pompeii 13 Feb. 1872, and Apollo in Romulus and Remus 23 Dec. 1872, all at the Vaudeville theatre; played again in pantomimes at the Surrey; Sinbad in the Old Man of the sea, Drury lane 26 Dec. 1882; again had great popularity at the music halls, very successful in caricaturing dandies, her songs Lah-di-dah and Tiddy-fol-lol had a great run; her last appearance was at the Trocadero 19 Jany. 1887; m. 17 June 1874 Roland Gideon Israel, eldest son of Bennett Barnett of Keppel st. Russell sq. London, from whom she obtained a divorce. d. 309 Essex road, Islington, London 20 Jany. 1887. bur. Abney park cemetery 26 Jany. The Era 22 Jany. 1887 p. 10, 29 Jany. p. 10; Saturday Programme 18 July 1874, with portrait, 5 Feb. 1876 pp. 8–9, two portraits.
POWER, Frank Le Poer (son of a bank manager in Dublin). Held a commission in the Austro-Hungarian army; an artist; a war correspondent on Bulgarian frontier in Russo-Turkish war 1877; leaving London 17 May 1883, went with Edmond O’Donovan to Khartoum, was in Khartoum 1 Aug. 1883 to 10 Sept. 1883 as his secretary and assistant; made sketches for the Pictorial World; joined Hicks Pasha’s army; acting consul of the foreign office at Khartoum 15 Dec. 1883; correspondent of The Times; author of Letters from Khartoum, written during the siege, 3 ed. 1885; known as The Ghazi; murdered by the Arabs at Wady Gamr, near Berber on the Nile about 27 Sept. 1884 while on his way to Dongola with lieut. col. J. D. H. Stewart, brass tablet in memory of Power and 6 other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Round about recollections i 26–33 (1892); I.L.N. 13 Dec. 1884 p. 576 portrait; Foreign office list 1885 p. 214; Times 6 Oct. 1884 p. 11 et seq.