POWNEY, Richard. b. 1785; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 7 May 1805, lieut. col. 3 March 1835, colonel 12 July 1844 to death; principal commissary ordnance department 27 Nov. 1837 to 1843; L.G. 21 Sept. 1859. d. 23 Dec. 1864.
POWRIE, Thomas. b. Dundee 8 Feb. 1824; educ. Stirling’s school in Tay street; acted at the Yeaman Shore theatre 1844 as T. Power, and then in Prince’s theatre, Glasgow; first appeared theatre royal, Edinburgh as Hamlet 10 Oct. 1849; played at theatre royal, Castle st. Dundee as Hamlet Oct. 1849; acted Julian St. Pierre in The Wife, theatre royal, Edinb. 28 Jany. 1850, Rob Roy at the Adelphi 17 Jany. 1852, Clifford in the Hunchback 6 Nov. 1852, Romeo 15 Nov. 1852, Richelieu at the theatre royal 17 May 1854, and O’Grady in Arrah-Na-Pogue 8 March 1866; appeared as Rob Roy at Drury Lane, London 23 March 1867 one night only as he sprained his ankle; made his last appearances in the Dundee theatre royal as Rob Roy on 9 and 10 March 1868; played 6 nights at Drury lane March 1868; made his last appearance on any stage at Prince of Wales’, Glasgow April 1868; as Rob Roy he was thought to have no equal. d. 6 Union place, Edinburgh 27 Aug. 1868. bur. Western cemetery, Dundee 29 Aug. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 408, 509; Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 312–6; Illust. sporting news iv 521 (1865) portrait, vi 200 (1867) portrait.
POWYS, Horatio (3 son of 2 baron Lilford 1775–1825). b. 20 Nov. 1805; educ. Harrow 1813 and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. 1826, D.D. 1854; R. of Warrington, Lancs. 1831–54; rural dean of Cheshire 1831–54; established the training college at Chester, and the institution for the education of the daughters of the clergy at Warrington; bishop of Sodor and Man 5 July 1854 to death, consecrated in York cathedral 25 July 1854; author of A pastoral letter to the congregation at Warrington 1848. d. Bewsey house, Bournemouth 31 May 1877. bur. Warrington 5 June.
POWYS, Walter Norman. b. Tichmarsh rectory, Northamptonshire 28 July 1849; educ. Pembroke coll. Camb.; famous as a fast left-handed bowler; played against Oxford 1871, 1872, and 1874, taking 24 Oxford wickets for 153 runs; played for the Gentlemen against the players at Lords 1872. d. at his residence, Queen’s Walk, Nottingham 8 Jany. 1892.
POYNTER, Ambrose (2 son of Ambrose Lyon Poynter). b. London 16 May 1796; employed by John Nash the architect 1814–8; travelled in Italy, Sicily, and the Ionian islands 1819–21; an architect at 1 Poet’s Corner, Westminster 1821–47, and at 12 Park st. Westminster 1847, retired 1860; built the church of St. Paul in the Hills road, Cambridge 1847; an original member of Royal institute of British architects 1834, and secretary 1840, 1841 and 1844, his anonymous essay On the introduction of iron in the construction of buildings, gained the institute’s silver medal 1842; designed the hospital and chapel of St. Katherine in the Regent’s park, London 1827, Christ Church, Westminster 1841, and the French protestant church in Bloomsbury st. 1845–6; designed Pynes, Devon for sir Stafford Northcote, Hodsock near Worksop, Notts. for Mrs. Chambers, and Castle Melgwy, South Wales; architect to National provincial bank of England; official referee to board of works; the first inspector for the provinces appointed in connection with the school of design at Somerset House, one of the committee of management to supervise the district schools of design 1848, inspector of the schools 1850; an original member of the Arundel society 1848, the Graphic society, and the Archæological institute 1843; made drawings to illustrate F. Sandford’s Genealogical history of England 1865; contributed illustrations to Knight’s Shakespeare 1851 and Pictorial history of England 1840, and the articles on literature, science and art to the latter work; author of An essay on the history and antiquities of Windsor castle, this is printed in sir J. Wyatville’s Illustrations of Windsor castle 1841. d. Dover 20 Nov. 1886. Proc. of Royal institute of British architects (1887) 113, 137.
POYSER, Thomas. b. 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading medical practitioner at Wirksworth, Derbyshire 1821 to death; contributed a succession of papers on ‘The authors of articles in the Quarterly Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent. Mag., also contributed to Medico chirurgical review and the London journal of medicine. d. Wirksworth 11 June 1860. G.M. ix 319 (1860); Lancet i 634 (1860).
Note.—He gave Florence Nightingale her first hints in nursing and medicine, when as a girl she used to attend the sick poor near his home.
PRAED, Bulkeley Mackworth (7 child of William Mackworth Praed, banker, d. 1791). b. St. Lawrence, Exeter 21 Nov. 1771; entered navy 21 Sept. 1780; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; transferred to the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. of the White 9 Nov. 1846; purchased Acton castle, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall. d. Acton castle 6 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 634 (1852).
PRAED, Charles Tyringham (2 son of James Backwell Praed, M.P. 1779–1837). b. 18 Aug. 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 19 March 1851; partner in Praed and Co. bankers, Fleet st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1874–80; resided 95 Queen’s gate, London. d. Edgcombe hall, Wimbledon 19 Oct. 1895. Graphic xi 291, 292 (1875) portrait.
PRAED, William Mackworth (eld. son of William Mackworth Praed, serjeant-at-law 1756–1835). b. 24 May 1797; educ. Eton 1811–14; at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; recorder of Barnstaple, Bideford and South Molton June 1836 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 59 (South Devon) March 1847 to death; chairman of Devon quarter sessions. d. at the London inn, Exeter 25 Sept. 1857.