Chapter LXXIII: Part 73

PORTON, WILLIAM. _b._ on board the Saturn off Gibraltar 12 Aug.
1783; fought at Santa Cruz and Trafalgar; lived at Wolverhampton
more than 60 years. _d._ Wolverhampton Oct. 1883, aged 100 years
and 2 months.

PORTSMOUTH, JOHN CHARLES WALLOP 3 Earl of (son of 2 earl of
Portsmouth 1742–97). _b._ Hurstbourne park near Andover 18 Dec.
1767; styled viscount Lymington 1767–97; succeeded his father as
3 earl of Portsmouth 16 May 1797; hereditary bailiff of Burley;
all his property vested in trustees 1790; placed in care of a
medical attendant, Mr. Coombe 1808–14; most cruelly treated by
his second wife; declared to have been incapable of managing his
affairs from 1 Jany. 1809 by a commission which sat 10–28 Feb.
1823. _d._ Hurstbourne park, 14 July 1853. _A genuine report
of the proceedings to enquire into the sanity of the earl of
Portsmouth_ (1823); _G.M. xl_ 307 (1852).

PORTSMOUTH, NEWTON FELLOWES, 4 earl of (brother of the
preceding). _b._ Hurstbourne park 26 June 1772; styled the
hon. Newton Wallop 1772–94; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1792;
took the name of Fellowes in lieu of Wallop by R.L. 9 Aug.
1794, on succeeding to Eggesford, north Devon, on death of his
uncle Henry Arthur Fellowes; capt. independent company South
Devon militia 6 Feb. 1795; M.P. Andover 1802–20; M.P. North
Devon 1832–7; capt. 1 East Devon regt. of militia 26 July 1820;
succeeded his brother as 4 earl of Portsmouth 14 July 1853. _d._
Eggesford, North Devon 9 Jany. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 190 (1854).

PORTSMOUTH, ISAAC NEWTON WALLOP, 5 earl of (son of the
preceding). _b._ Castle hill, North Devon 11 Jany. 1825; educ.
Rugby 1838 and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 16 lancers 27 March
1846, sold out 16 April 1847; styled Isaac Newton Fellowes
1843–53; styled viscount Lymington 1853–4; succeeded his father
as 5 earl of Portsmouth 9 Jany. 1854, and took name of Wallop
in lieu of Fellowes; ran horses near Aldershot as Mr. Fellowes
1854; as lord Portsmouth won races with Aaconora 1855; his
Buccaneer a favourite for the Derby 1859; a steward of the
Jockey club 1859; master of his own fox hounds in the Anstey
country, Dulverton 1847–50; master of the Vine hounds 1850–4;
master of hounds at Eggesford 1854. _d._ Eggesford house 4 Oct.
1891, will proved at £58,166. _Baily’s mag. Sept. 1861 pp._
219–22 _portrait_, _Nov. 1891 pp._ 353–4; _Sporting Mirror April
1883 pp._ 113–15 _portrait_.

POST, JACOB (son of John Post). _b._ Whitefriars, London 12
Sept. 1774; educ. Ackworth school 1782–7; resided in Islington
many years; a founder of the North London and Islington
auxiliary of the Bible society 1812; author of Some popular
customs amongst Christians, questioned and compared with
gospel precepts and examples 1839; On the history and mystery
of the Sacraments 1846; Some reasons for continuing to refuse
the payment of all ecclesiastical demands 1849; The Bible the
book for all 1848, reprinted 1849 and 1856. _d._ Church st.
Islington, London 1 April 1855. _bur._ Winchmore hill near
London. _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889)
25; _Annual Monitor 1856 p._ 155; _J. Smith’s Catalogue of
Friends’ books ii_ 428–30 (1867).

POSTANS, ROBERT BAXTER. _b._ 1787; in naval service of H.E.I.C.
to 1840; saw Napoleon i lying in state at St. Helena and
attended his funeral 1821, and was present at the reinterment
in Les Invalides, Paris 1840; a great friend of Henry Mayhew
and George Hodder; associated with the preliminaries of Punch
and was an original contributor from 17 July 1841; his pen and
ink etchings were unequalled, the constant work on these caused
total blindness from 1884. _d._ Southsea 6 July 1892 aged 105.
_bur._ Eastney cemetery. _M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch_
(1895) 12, 17, 19, 283.

POSTE, BEALE (2 son of Wm. Poste one of the four common pleaders
of the city of London). _b._ Hayle place near Maidstone 1793;
educ. Trin. hall Camb. LL.B. 1819; C. of High Halden, Kent; C.
of Milstead, Kent; a member of British Archæological association
1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History
of the college of All Saints, Maidstone 1847; The coins of
Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853; Britannic researches
or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853;
Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brought within the limits
of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and
British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an
atlas of coins 1861. _d._ Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April
1871. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 309 (1872).

POSTGATE, JOHN (son of Thomas Postgate, builder). _b._
Scarborough 21 Oct. 1820; in the service of a grocer where
everything was adulterated; M.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.C.S. 1854; L.S.A.
July 1845; a surgeon at Birmingham from 1854; examined before
select Committee of house of commons on adulteration 1855,
the members for Birmingham Wm. Scholefield and G. F. Muntz
introduced nine bills dealing with adulteration, into the house
of commons under his influence 1860–75; promoted the National
association for promotion of social science 1857; professor
of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology at Queen’s college,
Birmingham 7 May 1860; author of Sanitary aspects of Birmingham
1852; A few words on adulteration 1857; Medical services and
public payments 1862. _d._ London hospital, London 26 Sept.
1881. _bur._ new cemet. Birmingham, portrait by Vivian Crome in
council chamber at Scarborough. _Edgbastonia Feb. 1882 pp._ 20–3
_portrait_.

POTOCKI, COUNT MIECESLAS FRANCOIS JOSEPH. _b._ Russia 1794;
excessively rich, having an income of 6,000,000 francs; came to
England and was naturalized 6 Feb. 1875; left all his property
to charities as he could not bear the idea of it going to his
heir; before his death altered his will and left his money to
his son Nicholas Potocki, who had never offended him, amount
said to be £80,000 a year; his wife the countess Potocki,
a musician, the friend and benefactor of F. F. Chopin the
composer, sang at his death bed. _d._ 35 Avenue Friedland, Paris
Nov. 1878. _Times 7 Dec. 1878 p._ 5; _Willeby’s F. F. Chopin_
(1892) 281–2.

POTT, DAVID. _b._ 9 Feb. 1812; ensign 47 Bengal N.I. 14 Sept.
1832, lieut. col. 1 May 1858 to 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col.
Bengal staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29
May 1875. _d._ Borthwickshiels, Hawick 2 Oct. 1881.

POTTER, ADDISON (eld. son of Addison Langhorn Potter of Heaton
hall, _d._ 1853). _b._ 1820; a brewer and maltster with his
father at Newcastle, head of the firm 1853; fire brick and
cement manufacturer at Willington quay; chairman of Newcastle
and Gateshead water co.; member of Newcastle town council 1852,
alderman 1865, mayor 1873–4, 1874–5; the oldest surviving
volunteer officer; captain Northumberland and Durham artillery
16 Aug. 1859, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1861 to death; C.B. 24 May
1881, invested at Windsor castle 1 July; a partner in the Stella
coal co, as senior partner presented with his portrait 27 Aug.
1874, Mrs. Potter receiving a tiara of diamonds. _d._ Heaton
hall, Newcastle 23 Feb. 1894. _bur._ Jesmond road cemetery 24
Feb. _I.L.N. 3 March 1894 p._ 254 _portrait_; _Newcastle Weekly
chronicle 24 Feb. 1894 p._ 8 _portrait_, _3 March p._ 6.

POTTER, EDMUND (son of James Potter). _b._ Manchester 1802;
calico printer at Dinting Vale, near Glossop, Derbyshire 1827,
his business became one of the largest in the world; president
of Manchester chamber of commerce 1852–61; F.R.S. 5 June
1856; M.P. Carlisle 1861–74; resided 64 Queen’s gate, South
Kensington, London; author of Calico print as an art manufacture
1852; Trade schools 1854; Practical opinions against partnership
with limited liability, by a Manchester man 1855; The sugar
duties 1864, 2 ed. 1864. _d._ Camfield place, Hatfield, Herts 26
Oct. 1883.

POTTER, EDMUND COMPTON (son of preceding). _b._ Manchester 22
July 1830; partner in his father’s firm of E. Potter and Co.
1851; an art collector having one of the finest collections
of cloisonné ware in the kingdom; among the pictures at his
residence Rusholme hall, Lancashire was the Welsh funeral by
David Cox; his collection of pictures, &c. was sold in London 22
March 1884 for £37,619. _d._ Brighton 6 May 1883.

POTTER, GEORGE. _b._ Kenilworth 1832; apprenticed to a carpenter
at Coventry; came to London, employed in building firm of George
Myers and son; elected a member of the Progressive society
of carpenters 1854; became prominent in the lock-out in the
building trades of London 1859; headed the deputation of workmen
of London who welcomed Garibaldi 11 April 1864; presented by the
combined trades of London and the provinces with an illuminated
address and a purse of £300 in 1866; started and edited a
paper entitled The Beehive 1861; member for Westminster of the
London school board 27 Nov. 1873 to Nov. 1882, obtained the
appointment of the educational endowment committee; contested
Peterborough 3 Feb. 1874 and Preston 2 July 1886; as president
of the London working men’s association opened the first
trade-union congress held in St. Martin’s hall, Long Acre Aug.
1868; wrote articles on labour questions in the Contemporary
Review and The Times; author of The labour question: an address
to the capitalists and employers of the building trade, being
a few reasons on behalf of a reduction of the hours of labour
1861. _d._ 21 Marney road, Wandsworth, Surrey 3 June 1893.
_Webb’s History of trade unionism_ (1894) 213, 230, 237, 256,
282; _G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii_ 194
(1893).

POTTER, GEORGE WILLIAM KILLETT (brother of Philip Cipriani
H. Potter 1792–1871). _b._ 1798; admitted solicitor 1819;
secondary of city of London 1831 to death, for which office he
paid £5,000; clerk of the coach-makers co. to death; one of the
undersheriffs of London. _d._ 70 Russell sq. London 12 May 1871.
_Solicitors’ Journal xv_ 527 (1871); _Law Journal vi_ 334 (1871).

POTTER, SIR JOHN (eld. son of sir Thomas Potter, first mayor
of Manchester, _d._ 20 March 1845). _b._ Polefield, Prestwich,
Lancs. 1815; educ. in univ. of Edinb.; head of firm of Potters
and Norris, George st. Manchester, drapers and merchants 1845 to
death; alderman of Manchester corporation 1845 to death, mayor
1848–51; knighted at Manchester 10 Oct. 1851; M.P. Manchester 30
March 1857 to death. _d._ Beech house, Pendleton, Manchester 25
Oct. 1858. _Pusely’s Commercial companion_, _2 ed._ (1860) _p._
143; _G.M. v_ 634 (1858); _I.L.N. xviii_ 484 (1851).

POTTER, PHILIP CIPRIANI HAMBLY. _b._ London 2 Oct. 1792;
associate of Philharmonic society March 1813, a member Oct.
1813; first appeared at a Philharmonic concert 29 April
1816, when he played the pianoforte in a sextet of his own
composition; studied in Vienna, Germany, and Italy 1817–21;
principal professor of the pianoforte at royal academy of
music March 1823 to 1859; director of the orchestral classes
and conductor of the public concerts at R.A. of music 1827–59,
principal of the academy 1832–59; introduced into England at the
Philharmonic society’s concerts Beethoven’s concertos in C minor
1824 and in G 1825, wrote a symphony in A minor for the society,
produced 1833; conductor of the Madrigal society 1855–70;
treasurer of the society of British musicians 1858–65; edited 6
pieces by Beethoven 1854–60; H. Bertini’s Rudiments du pianiste
1850, and his Studies for the piano 1845; J. C. Kessler’s
Twenty-four studies for the piano 1853; Chefs d’œuvres de Mozart
1837; composer of Sonata for the piano 1817; When evening draws
her curtain round, a romance 1825; Studies for the piano in the
major and minor keys 1827; Medora e Corrado, a cantata 1828;
Trois grand trios pour le piano 1835; Etudes pour le piano forte
1840; Cipriani Potter’s celebrated octave lesson 1848; his name
is attached to 40 pieces of music. _d._ 3 Craven Hill, Hyde
park, London 26 Sept. 1871. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 2 Oct., a
portrait by Bendixen and Seguin was published 1838. _I.L.N. lix_
339 (1871).

POTTER, RICHARD (son of Richard Potter, corn merchant and
then brewer). _b._ Toad lane, Manchester 2 Jany. 1799; educ.
Manchester gr. sch. 1811–5; engaged in mercantile life some
years; studied optics under Dr. Dalton; read 8 papers at first
three meetings of British association 1831–3; scholar of
Queen’s coll. Camb. 1834, fellow Jany. 1839–43; sixth wrangler
1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; L.R.C.P. 1841 but never practised;
professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Univ. coll.
London Oct. 1841 to April 1843, and Oct. 1844 to July 1865,
Emeritus professor July 1865 to death; professor of philosophy
and astronomy King’s coll. Toronto June 1843 to Aug. 1844;
author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1846, 4 ed. 1859;
An elementary treatise on optics, 2 parts 1847–51; Physical
optics, or the nature and properties of light, 2 parts 1856–9;
An elementary treatise on hydrostatics, 2 parts 1859–87; and
of about 60 papers in scientific periodicals. _d._ Brookside,
Cambridge 6 June 1886. _Manchester School Register iii_ 82–4
(1874).

POTTER, RICHARD (only son of Richard Potter, M.P. Wigan, _d._
Penzance 13 July 1842). _b._ Manchester 1817; educ. Lond.
univ. and Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow
of his college; barrister M.T. 18 Jany. 1842; lost much of
his income in French revolution 1848; member of Price and Co.
Gloucester, with branches at Grimsby and Barrow in Furness 1850;
constructed the wooden huts for the English and the French in
the Crimea 1854; a director of Great western railway 1849–56,
1863, chairman Aug. 1863–5; consolidated the G.W.R. stocks
and established a superannuation fund for the work people; a
director of Grand trunk railway of Canada 1862, president
1869–76; Beatrice Potter, authoress, is his daughter. _d._ Box
house, Minchinhampton, Gloucs. 1 Jany. 1892. _Times 4 Jany. 1892
p._ 10.

POTTER, ROBERT. Attorney in Dublin; defended Wm. Smith O’Brien
1849; law agent to Limerick corporation; M.P. Limerick 15 July
1852 to death. _d._ 1 Oct. 1854.

POTTER, THOMAS JOSEPH (son of George Potter). _b._ Scarborough
9 June 1828; received into Church of Rome at Stockhead park,
Beverley 24 Feb. 1847, and joined Stonyhurst college; entered
All Hallow’s college, Dublin 24 Oct. 1854; ordained priest 28
June 1857; director of All Hallows’ college and professor of
sacred eloquence 1857 to death; author of The two victories
1860; The rector’s daughter 1861; Legends, lyrics, and hymns
1862; Light and shade 1864; Percy Grange or the ocean of life
1864, 2 ed. 1884; A panegyric of St. Patrick 1864; The spoken
word or the art of extempore preaching 1872. _d._ All Hallow’s
college, Dublin 31 Aug. 1873.

POTTER, THOMAS ROSSELL (son of John Potter, farmer). _b._ West
Hallam, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1799; resided at Wymeswold, Leics.
1814 to death; kept a school at Wymeswold; hunted with the Quorn
hounds; wrote many papers and poems in the Sporting Magazine
under pseudonym of Old Grey 1827–40; editor of the Leicester
Advertiser 1849–58, of the Ilkeston Pioneer 1856, of the
Leicester Guardian 1858, and of the Loughborough Monitor 1865;
discovered a British camp on Beacon hill, Leics.; F.R. Soc. of
literature 1849; hon. life member of Leicester literary and
philosophical soc. 1849; author of The history and antiquities
of Charnwood Forest 1842; Walks round Loughborough 1837; Rambles
round Loughborough 1868; Poems 1881. _d._ Wymeswold 19 April
1873. _The Reliquary_, _July 1873 pp._ 17–20; _Antiquary 10 May
1873 p._ 225.

POTTER, WILLIAM (only son of William Potter, merchant). _b._
Liverpool 1838; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859; barrister
I.T. 30 April 1861, bencher 25 Nov. 1881 to death; went northern
circuit; Q.C. 24 March 1880; master of the northern bar lodge
of freemasons; contested Northamptonshire, northern division
July 1892. _d._ 5 Papers buildings, Temple, London 5 Dec. 1893.
_bur._ St. Margaret’s, Princes road, Liverpool.

POTTER, WILLIAM AUBONÉ (eld. son of Edward Potter, M.I.C.E.)
_b._ Cramlington, Northumberland Oct. 1832; educ. King’s
coll. London to 1850; apprentice to his father, a viewer at
Cramlington collieries 1850–5; viewer to Day and Twibell, Monk
Bretton 1855; engaged in connection with accidents at the
Lundhill colliery March 1857, the Edmund’s main colliery Dec.
1862, and the Oaks colliery Dec. 1866; viewer of the Silkstone
and Dodsworth collieries 1863; ensign 37 West Yorkshire rifle
volunteer corps (Barnsley) 2 Nov. 1860; with Mr. Embleton
founded the Midland institute of mining and mechanical
engineers, secretary; viewer of the Cramlington collieries 1868
to death; government check viewer of Greenwich hospital estates;
mayor of Tynemouth 1875; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1867. _d._ Tynemouth 20
June 1887. _bur._ Cramlington church. _Min. of proc. of Instit.
of C.E. xci_ 421–3 (1888).

POTTER, WILLIAM NORWOOD. _b._ London 28 Aug. 1840; commenced
playing chess at Simpson’s divan, London 1867; defeated
Blackburne and De Vere in the handicap tournay, city of London
chess club 1870, took second prize at tournay 1874–5; editor of
City of London chess magazine 1874–5; drew a match with Mason
1879; editor of the Westminster papers 1874; chess editor of
Land and Water to 1884; with Steinmetz and Zukertort editor of
article on chess in Encyclopædia Britannica v 592–603 (1876);
with Steinmetz conducted 2 games by correspondence against
Vienna. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 13 March 1895. _Westminster Papers
1 May 1876 p._ 4 _portrait_; _Chess Monthly April 1895 p._ 225
_portrait_.

POTTINGER, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (5 son of Eldred Curwen
Pottinger, _d._ Aug. 1814). _b._ Mount Pottinger, co. Down 25
Dec. 1789; cadet in the Bombay infantry 1804; explored the
country between India and Persia 1809–10; served during the
Mahratta war 1805; collector of Ahmadnagar; major 13 Bombay
N.I. 1 May 1825; resident in Cutch 1825; lieut. col. of 24
N.I. 17 March 1829 to 1839, of 14 N.I. 1839–40, and of 69 N.I.
1840 to 19 Aug. 1841; political agent in Sind 1836–40; created
baronet 27 April 1840; envoy and plenipotentiary in China and
superintendent of British trade May 1841; cooperated in the
capture of Amoy, Chusan, Chinhai, and Ningpo 1841; signed the
treaty of Nanking 29 Aug. 1842, by which Hongkong was ceded to
England; governor and commander-in-chief of Hongkong 5 April
1843 to Feb. 1844; G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; P.C. 23 May 1844; voted
freedom of city of London 13 Feb. 1845, admitted 17 July 1845;
voted an annuity of £1,500 by house of commons June 1845; col.
of 11 Bombay N.I. 4 June 1845 to death; governor of Cape of Good
Hope 28 Sept. 1846 to Aug. 1847; governor of Madras 4 Aug. 1847
to 28 April 1854, took his seat 7 April 1848; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841,
L.G. in India 11 Nov. 1851; author of Travels in Beloochistan
and Sinde 1816. _d._ Valetta, Malta 18 March 1856. _bur._
Valetta, portrait painted by sir Francis Grant. _Dublin univ.
mag. Oct. 1846 pp._ 426–42 _portrait_; _D. C. Boulger’s History
of China iii_ 178, 828 (1884); _I.L.N. ii_ 24 (1843) _portrait_.

POTTINGER, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Pottinger of Mount Pottinger).
_b._ May 1815; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 9 June 1831; lieut.
col. 13 May 1859, retired on full pay as M.G. 1 Sept. 1863;
commissary general 27 Dec. 1861 to 1 Sept. 1863; as brigade
major served in Persian campaign 1856–7, medal with clasp;
commanded Ahmednugger field force during Indian mutiny 1857–8;
sheriff of Leitrim 1867; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Mount
Pottinger, Carrick-on-Shannon 12 April 1877.

POTTS, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. _b._ 1834; educ. Shrewsbury, captain
of the football and stroke of the boat; at St. John’s coll.
Camb., second classic, second chancellor’s medallist and B.A.
1858, M.A. 1861, LL.D.; fellow of his college 1858; a master at
the Charterhouse 1858; an assistant master Rugby 1862–8; the
first head master of Fettes college, Edinburgh July 1868 to
death, the college prospered under his management; author of
Hints towards Latin prose composition 1869, 2 ed. 1870; Passages
for translation into Latin prose 1879; with C. Darnell Aditus
faciliores, a Latin construing book 1875; Aditus faciliores
Græci 1878; and with W. A. Heard Camenarum Flosculos 1877, 3 ed.
1886. _d._ The lodge, Fettes college 15 Nov. 1889. _bur._ Dean
cemetery 19 Nov. _The Scotsman 18 Nov. 1889 p._ 7, _20 Nov. p._
6; _School sermons by A. W. Potts_ (1891), _memoir pp. xi–xl
portrait_.

POTTS, GEORGE (2 son of William Potts of Kelso). _b._ London
1807; contested Barnstaple 30 March 1857; M.P. Barnstaple 30
April 1859 to death; resided 29 Upper Seymour st. London and
Trafalgar house, Barnstaple. _d._ Haverstock hill, London 20
Sept. 1863.

POTTS, JOHN (son of William Potts, printer, _d._ 1867). _b._
Banbury 2 Dec. 1830; proprietor and editor of the Banbury
Guardian 1867 to death; ensign of the Banbury volunteers 24
Feb. 1860, lieut. 21 Oct. 1862; obtained medals at National
rifle association at Wimbledon; president of Banbury bowling
club; presented by provincial grand lodge of Oxfordshire with a
charity jewel with 13 clasps 1884. _d._ Banbury 28 April 1892.
_bur._ 2 May. _Banbury guardian 5 May 1892 p._ 8.

POTTS, JOSEPH TRUMPERANT. _b._ 19 April 1815; managing
proprietor of Saunders’ News-Letter, Dublin 1846 to death; owner
of landed property in Galway, Roscommon, and the King’s and
Queen’s counties. _d._ 20 Fitzwilliam square, Dublin 17 Oct.
1871. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 20 Oct. _Newspaper Press 1 Nov.
1871 p._ 238.

POTTS, ROBERT (son of Robert Potts). _b._ Lambeth 1805; a sizar
at Trin. coll. Camb. 1828; 25th wrangler 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A.
1835; private tutor at Cambridge; hon. LL.D. William and Mary
college, Virginia; author of Euclid’s Elements of geometry
1845, several editions, it had a great sale in America and
the colonies; A view of the Evidences of Christianity and the
Horæ Paulinæ of W. Paley 1850; Liber Cantabrigiensis, 2 parts
1855–63; Open scholarships in the university of Cambridge 1866,
2 ed. 1883; Aphorisms, maxims, &c. 1875; Elementary arithmetic
with brief notices of its history 1876; Elementary algebra
with brief notices of its history 1879–80. _d._ Park terrace,
Cambridge 5 Aug. 1885.

POULDEN, GEORGE (eld. son of Alexander Poulden). _b._ Portsea,
Hants. 1802; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; counsel to post
office; revising barrister on western circuit; recorder of
Portsmouth April 1866 to death. _d._ 9A Stanhope place, Hyde
Park, London 12 June 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery. _Law
Times xlv_ 171 (1868).

POULETT, JOHN POULETT, 5 Earl (1 son of 4 earl Poulett
1756–1819). _b._ Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1783;
styled viscount Hinton 1788–1819; educ. Harrow, matric. from
Brasenose coll. Oxf. 12 June 1801; colonel 2 Somerset militia
20 Sept. 1804 to 23 Feb. 1819; colonel of 1 Somerset militia 23
Feb. 1819 to 1852. _d._ Hinton St. George, Crewkerne 20 June
1864, will proved under £120,000.

POULETT, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ 10 May 1786;
entered navy 2 Aug. 1797; captain 31 July 1806; naval
aide-de-camp to William iv and Victoria Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov.
1841; receiver general of the land and assessed taxes in
Somerset 1840; V.A. 21 June 1850; _fell dead_ from his horse
while hunting near West Marden, Sussex 11 Feb. 1854. _G.M. xli_
420 (1854).

POULSON, GEORGE (2 son of John Poulson of Petersfield, Hants.).
_b._ 1785; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 11 Feb. 1823;
author of Beverlac, or the antiquities and history of the town
of Beverley in the county of York, 2 vols. 1829; The history and
antiquities of the seignory of Holderness in the east riding of
the county of York, 2 vols. Hull 1840–1; edited Henry Wm. Ball’s
Social history and antiquities of Barton-upon-Humber 1856. _d._
Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincoln 12 Jany. 1858. _W. Boyne’s Yorkshire
library_ (1869) 152–6, 165–6; _G.M. April 1858 p._ 449.

POULTNEY, EDWARD. _b._ 1821; founder of The Home in the East
reformatory, Old Ford Bow 1852. _d._ 8 Dec. 1853.

POVEY, JOHN (son of James Povey of Birmingham, vocalist, called
the Warwickshire Incledon). _b._ Birmingham 1799; a bass singer;
sang at Drury Lane 1817, at English opera house 1821; made his
first appearance in New York as Hawthorn in Love in a village
7 May 1827; actor and business agent at Park theatre 1827–49;
had a complimentary benefit at the Broadway theatre previously
to his return to England 26 May 1849. _d._ Surrey st. Strand,
London 2 May 1867. _Ireland’s New York stage i_ 518, _ii_ 529
(1867); _Era 12 May 1867 p._ 10.

POWELL, BADEN (eld. son of Baden Powell, sheriff of Kent).
_b._ Stamford Hill, Middlesex 22 Aug. 1796; educ. Oriel coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Midhurst, Kent 1820–1; V. of
Plumstead 1821–7; F.R.S. 13 May 1824, F.G.S. 1837; Savilian
professor of geometry at Oxford Feb. 1827 to death; wrote many
papers in scientific periodicals, chiefly on optical questions;
member of the Oxford university commission 1851; _m._ 10 March
1846 Henrietta Grace, eld. dau. of Wm. Henry Smyth, president of
royal astronomical society, she was granted civil list pension
of £150, 12 April 1870; author of History of natural philosophy
1834; The connexion of natural and divine truth 1838; Tradition
unveiled 1839, Supplement 1840; Essays on the spirit of the
inductive philosophy and the unity of worlds 1855, 2 ed. 1856;
The study of natural theology 1856; Christianity without Judaism
1856, 2 ed. 1866; The order of nature 1859; contributed an essay
On the study of the evidences of Christianity to Essays and
Reviews 1860 pp. 94–144 five editions, to which there were 14
replies. _d._ 6 Stanhope st. Hyde park gardens, London 11 June
1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _G.M. ix_ 204 (1860); _I.L.N.
xviii_ 419 _where he is shown lecturing on the rotation of the
earth_, 468 (1851).

POWELL, CALEB (eld. son of Eyre Burton Powell, barrister, _d._
1800). _b._ 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1813; called to
the Irish bar 1817; M.P. Limerick county 12 July 1841 to 23 July
1847; sheriff of Limerick 1858. _d._ Clonshavoy, near Limerick
24 Feb. 1881.

POWELL, HENRY J. Equestrian actor; lessee of the Pavilion
theatre, London 1867–8; lessee of Sadler’s Wells theatre;
travelled the provinces with a dramatic and equestrian company
1873–8; fell into a stream of water and was suffocated, found
_dead_ on Wimbledon common, Surrey 4 May 1878. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 10 May. _Era 19 May 1878 p._ 12.

POWELL, _John Hardman_ (son of Wm. Powell of Birmingham, who
_d._ 1861). _b._ Newhall st. Birmingham 2 March 1827; pupil
of Augustus Welby Pugin 1843–52; artistic head of firm of J.
Hardman and Co. Birmingham 1852; some of his principal works
were the heraldic and other glass in the houses of parliament
1847–59, Westminster hall 1849, St. Stephen’s crypt 1860,
Worcester cathedral 1859–75, St. Neot’s, Hants. 1859–80,
Beverley minster 1856–94, St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham 1869,
the Catholic church, Cambridge 1888, and St. John the Baptist,
Norwich 1894; _m._ 1850 Anne, dau. of A. W. Pugin. _d._ 12 Lee
road, Blackheath, Kent 2 March 1895. _bur._ in the Pugin chantry
in St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate. _Times 4 March 1895 p._ 10;
_Tablet 9 March 1895_.

POWELL, JOHN JOSEPH (eld. son of Thomas Powell). _b._ Gloucester
3 Sept. 1816; barrister M.T. 16 April 1847, bencher 23 Nov.
1863 to death, treasurer 1876; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1863; recorder of
Wolverhampton 21 May 1864 to death; judge of county court,
circuit No. 11, (West Riding of Yorkshire), and joint judge
of Leeds in circuit No. 14, 9 April 1884 to Oct. 1885; judge
of circuit No. 47, Greenwich, etc. Oct. 1885 to death; M.P.
Gloucester 1862–5; contested Gloucester 3 Feb. 1874; contested
Weymouth 17 Nov. 1868. _d._ suddenly while on a visit at Widmore
lodge, Bickley 15 Sept. 1891. _Law Times 19 Sept. 1891 p._ 355.

POWELL, JOSEPH MARTIN (youngest son of Thomas Powell). _b._
Gloucester 2 June 1822; apprenticed to John Cowmeadow of Ross,
bookseller; worked with Bradbury and Evans London to 1844; a
compositor in America 1844–5; country traveller for S. and
T. Sharwood of the Austin letter foundry 1845–52; executed
commissions for Barrett and Co. bible publishers, London 1845,
and other firms to death; founder and proprietor of Printers’
Register 1863, and editor to death; a type broker at 3 Bouverie
st. 1868–74 and in St. Bride’s st. March 1874 to death. _d._
14 Hillmarten road, Camden road, London 17 Sept. 1874. _bur._
Finchley cemetery 23 Sept. _The Printers’ Register 6 Oct. 1874
pp._ 182–4.

POWELL, LEWIS. _b._ Trecastle, South Wales 1796; educ. St.
George’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1818; M.D. Edinb. 1823;
F.R.C.S. Eng. 1818; in practice 13 John st. Berkeley sq. London
from 1837, latterly in partnership with J. T. Smith; the Powell
ward in St. George’s hospital is named after him; author of De
rheumatismo, Edinburgh 1823. _d._ 13 John st. London 18 Feb.
1867. _Medical Times 23 Feb. 1867 pp._ 212, 213.

POWELL, PETER. _b._ about 1779; wrote many songs which he sang;
wrote for John Parry Of the married state I sing 1845; his
imitations of an oratorio and of a melodrama were extraordinary.
_d._ Bayswater, London 20 May 1855.

POWELL, RICHARD ASHMORE. _b._ 1816; cadet R.N. 24 Dec. 1831,
captain 8 March 1855, retired 6 July 1871; V.A. 21 March 1878;
served against the Riff pirates 1851; commanded the Vesuvius in
Crimean war 1854, medal; knight commander of Charles iii for
attempting to rescue a Spanish ship from Moorish pirates 1856;
knight of legion of honour; C.B. 5 July 1855; commodore in the
Pacific 1866–71; nautical assessor under Merchant shipping act
1876. _d._ Shanklin, Isle of Wight 24 Dec. 1892.

POWELL, THOMAS. _b._ London 3 Sept. 1809; a playwright and
literary man in London; went to U.S. of America 1849; the first
editor of Frank Leslie’s Weekly 1855, and of Frank Leslie’s
Ladies’ Magazine 1857; wrote several plays produced in New York
and London; author of The living authors in Great Britain 1849;
Living authors in America 1850; Pictures of the living authors
of Great Britain 1851. _d._ Newark, New Jersey 13 Jany. 1887.

POWELL, THOMAS SIDNEY. Ensign on half pay 13 May 1826; captain 6
foot 23 Jany. 1839; major 57 foot 26 Sept. 1848, placed on h.p.
9 Feb. 1855; lieut. colonel 53 foot 6 April 1855 to death; C.B.
4 Feb. 1856; _killed_ in action at Burdee, near Allahabad 1 Nov.
1857.

POWELL, WALTER. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 31 Jany. 1800, colonel
commandant 1 May 1849, retired on full pay 3 Nov. 1851; M.G. 20
June 1855. _d._ Burlington st. Bath 5 June 1858.

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._

POWER, JAMES. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel 5 June
1835 to 23 Nov. 1841; colonel commandant R.A. 6 Dec. 1846 to
death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ Dover 17 Feb. 1851.

POWER, SIR JAMES, 2 Baronet (only son of the succeeding). _b._
Johns Lane distillery, Dublin 6 Dec. 1800; educ. Rathfarnham
college; called to the Irish bar at King’s inns 1849; M.P. co.
Wexford 1835–47 and 1865–8; succeeded 25 June 1855; a comr.
of charitable bequests in Ireland 1865 to death; sheriff for
co. Wexford 1851, and for city of Dublin 1859. _d._ Edermine,
Enniscorthy, co. Wexford 30 Sept. 1877. _Irish law times xi_ 517
(1877).

POWER, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet. _b._ 1771; a distiller in Dublin;
alderman of Dublin; created baronet 18 Oct. 1841; a supporter
of D. O’Connell by his purse and influence; laid foundation
stone of O’Connell monument in Glasnevin cemetery 1854. _d._
Roebuck house, county Dublin 25 June 1855. _bur._ in cathedral,
Marlborough st. Dublin. _G.M. xliv_ 428 (1855).

POWER, JOHN. _b._ 1820; articled to sir John Rennie, C.E. but
gave up the engineering profession; published The Irish literary
enquirer 1865–6, four numbers only; Bibliotheca Hibernica,
Dublin 1865, a specimen sheet; List of Irish periodical
publications 1866; A handy book about books 1870; resided in
Panama some years; projected the Panama star and herald; resided
at St. John’s Wood, London. _d._ St. Leonards-on-sea 13 May
1872. _N. & Q. 4 s. ix_ 417 (1872).

POWER, JOHN (son of William Power of Lichfield). _b._ Freley,
Staffs. 31 July 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1828,
Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1837; 8 wrangler and
B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.D.; fellow and tutor of Pembroke, then
master of the college Jany. 1870 to death; vice-chancellor of
Camb. univ. 1870 and 1878. _d._ The master’s lodge, Pembroke
coll. 18 Nov. 1880. _bur._ Cherryhinton church 24 Nov. _The
Guardian 24 Nov. 1880 p._ 1620.

POWER, JOHN (son of Matthias Power). _b._ parish of Affane, near
Cappoquin, Waterford 1 May 1809; studied in St. John’s college,
Waterford; ordained priest 16 June 1832; C. of St. Mary’s,
Clonmel 8 June 1832; P.P. of Powerstown 2 July 1852; translated
to parish of S.S. Peter and Paul, Clonmel 6 Sept. 1866; R.C.
bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 May 1873 to death, consecrated
in Waterford cathedral 20 July 1873. _d._ Waterford 6 Dec. 1887.
_bur._ in Waterford cathedral 9 Dec. _W. M. Brady’s Episcopal
succession ii_ 77 (1876); _The Waterford mail 8 Dec. 1887 p._ 3,
_12 Dec. p._ 2.

POWER, JOSEPH (son of Mr. Power of Market Bosworth, Leics.
surgeon). _b._ Market Bosworth 1798; pensioner at Clare coll.
Camb. 21 March 1817, fellow 19 Dec. 1823 to 21 Feb. 1829, and 2
Jany. 1844, dean; fellow of Trin. hall 21 Feb. 1829 to 2 Jany.
1844, tutor and lecturer 1829–44; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; proctor
of the univ. 1829; librarian of the university 1845, resigned 13
Feb. 1864; V. of Litlington, Cambs. 1856–66; R. of Birdbrook,
Essex 1866 to death; contributed papers to the Transactions of
the Cambridge Philosophical society 1825–57. _d._ Birdbrook
rectory 7 June 1868.

POWER, MANLEY. Ensign 32 foot 30 Dec. 1819; lieut. 85 foot 4
Sept. 1823, placed on h.p. 30 June 1825; captain 85 foot 28 Dec.
1826, lieut. col. 13 April 1852 to death; brevet colonel 20 June
1854. _d._ Bath 27 April 1857.

POWER, MARGUERITE A. (dau. of colonel Power and niece of
Marguerite, countess of Blessington). _b._ about 1815; resided
with her aunt at Gore house, Kensington to April 1849, when she
went with her to Paris; edited The Keepsake 1851–7; contributed
to the Irish metropolitan magazine, Forget-me-not, and Once
a week; author of Evelyn Forester: a woman’s story 1856; The
Foresters, 2 vols. 1858; The letters of a betrothed 1858, signed
Honoria; Nelly Carew, 2 vols. 1859; Virginia’s hand, a poem
1860; Sweethearts and wives, 3 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1861; Arabian
days and nights, or rays from the east 1863; edited Country
quarters by the Countess of Blessington 1850, with a memoir.
_d._ July 1867. _Heath’s Book of beauty_ (1842) 135 _portrait_;
_Athenæum 13 July 1867 p._ 54.

POWER, MARY (widow of Nicholas Power of Snowhill and aunt of the
right hon. R. L. Sheil). Resided at Bath; went to London to see
the Great exhibition of 1851. _d._ the Ursuline convent, Cork 10
March 1853 aged 116. _The Constitution, Cork 17 March 1853 p._ 3.

POWER, PIERSE (cousin of John Power, bishop of Waterford, _d._
1887). _b._ Powerstown, near Clonmel 1827; was for sometime in
business; educ. Maynooth 1847; ordained a priest 1855; professor
of logic and moral philosophy St. John’s coll. Waterford 1855,
president to 1879; parish priest of Dungarvan 1879–86; coadjutor
to bishop of Waterford 7 March 1886; bishop of Waterford and
Lismore 6 Dec. 1887 to death. _d._ John’s Hill, Waterford 22
May 1889. _bur._ in the precincts of the cathedral 24 May. _The
Times 23 May 1889 p._ 5; _Waterford chronicle 25 May 1889 p._ 3.

POWER, RICHARD (son of Patrick W. Power of Pembroke lodge,
Tramore, Waterford). _b._ Tramore 1851; educ. Carlow and Old
Hall coll. Hertfordshire; M.P. Waterford Feb. 1874 to death, a
whip to the Parnellite party; caught a cold while attending C.
S. Parnell’s funeral from which he never recovered 11 Oct. 1891.
_d._ The Grand hotel, London 29 Nov. 1891. _bur._ Tramore 2 Dec.
_Times 1 Dec. 1891 p._ 9; _I.L.N. 5 Dec. 1891 p._ 726 _portrait_.

POWER, SIR WILLIAM GREENSHIELDS (son of J. Power of Killydangan,
co. Tipperary). _b._ Killydangan 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 31 May
1800, lieut. col. 12 June 1835, col. 4 May 1846 to 9 Nov.
1846, col. commandant 16 Dec. 1856 to death; served in Spain,
Portugal, and France 1808–14, silver war medal with 9 clasps;
general 4 Feb. 1857; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831; K.H. 1834; K.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862. _d._ Chine house, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 23 Jany.
1863.

POWIS, EDWARD JAMES HERBERT, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Powis
1785–1848). _b._ Pershore, Worcestershire 5 Nov. 1818; educ.
Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., cr. LL.D. 4 July 1842; styled
viscount Clive 1839–48; M.P. North Salop 1843–8; accidentally
shot his father while pheasant shooting 17 Jany. 1848, when he
succeeded to the peerage; cornet South Salop yeomanry 10 April
1840, lieut. col. 29 Feb. 1848; cr. D.C.L. Oxford 24 June 1857;
high steward of univ. of Cambridge 26 Oct. 1863; lord lieutenant
of Montgomeryshire 22 May 1877. _d._ 45 Berkeley sq. London
7 May 1891. _bur._ Welshpool, will proved at £196,988 gross.
_I.L.N. iv_ 65 (1844) _portrait_.

POWLETT, BARTON POWLETT WALLOP WILLIAM (1 son of William B. P.
Wallop, major 15 dragoons 1781–1824). _b._ 6 Sept. 1808; a rider
of race horses; well known in the hunting field; known as Barton
Wallop, when he was supposed to be the heir to lord Portsmouth’s
property; resided Northholme, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. _d._
Cheltenham 7 Dec. 1886. _Baily’s Mag. xlvii_ 71 (1887).

POWLEY, MARY. _b._ 1812; author of Echoes of Old Cumberland,
poems and translations 1875. _d._ Langwathby 23 Dec. 1882.

POWNALL, ASSHETON (3 son of James Pownall of Liverpool). _b._
1823; educ. Harrow 1837, and at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A.
1845, M.A. 1848; C. of Edgmond, Shropshire 1845–7; R. of South
Kilworth, Leicestershire 1847 to death; rural dean of Gartree
1867; hon. canon of Peterborough 1875–85; archdeacon of
Leicester 1884; proctor for the diocese of Peterborough 1871,
1874, and 1880; visited many places in the Midland counties
for Soc. for propagation of gospel in foreign parts; F.S.A. 7
Dec. 1865, and made contributions to the Proceedings; member of
Numismatic Soc. April 1860, and a contributor to the Chronicle
from 1861. _d._ while on a visit at Dover 25 Nov. 1886, memorial
window in Kilworth church. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xi_ 375
(1885–7); _Numismatic Chronicle vii_ 1887, _Proceedings_ 28–31.

POWNALL, JOHN GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of John Pownall, _d._
1836). _b._ 2 Sept. 1792; a founder of Exeter hall, London 1831;
a founder of the Record newspaper 1828; contested Finsbury
2 July 1834; contested Middlesex 31 July 1837; chairman of
Middlesex bench of magistrates 1844 to 14 July 1870, when
he was presented with a dessert service value 500 guineas;
connected with numerous philanthropic and charitable societies;
a knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem 8 June 1859. _d._
63 Russell sq. London 8 April 1880, portrait in Clerkenwell
sessions house. _The Record 12 April 1880 p._ 3; _Law Times
lxviii_ 442 (1880); _Times 9 April 1880 p._ 1.

NOTE.--He moved at the annual meeting of the Anti-slavery society at the Freemason’s hall, London on 15 May 1830 ‘That from and after Jany. 1 1830 every slave born within the king’s dominions shall be free.’ _Sir J. Stephen’s Anti-slavery recollections_ (1854) 121.

POWNEY, JOHN (youngest son of Pennyston Portlock Powney of
Maidenhead, _d._ 1794). Entered navy 1800; commanded the
Cameleon revenue cutter 1818–21, occasionally attended George
iii in his aquatic excursions; captain on h.p. 7 March 1853;
K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; inspecting commander of coast guard at
Aldborough 1831–4. _d._ St. Leonard’s, Exeter 27 Jany. 1855.
_G.M. xliii_ 644 (1855).

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.

PRAEGER, FERDINAND CHRISTIAN WILHELM (son of Henry Aloysius
Praeger, violinist and composer). _b._ Leipsic 22 Jany. 1815;
a student of the violoncello and of the piano at Lubeck to
1831; a teacher at the Hague 1831, and in London from 1834;
an overture by him was given by the New Philharmonic Soc.
conducted by Hector Berlioz 1852; his pianoforte trio was played
at the first concert of the London orchestra; naturalised
in England 19 Oct. 1854; performed at important concerts in
London, Paris, and Leipsic; English correspondent of Neue
Zeitschrift für Musik; he translated E. Naumann’s The history
of music 1862; author of Wagner as I knew him 1892; edited F.
Beyer’s Elementary instruction book for the piano 1854, and
H. Rosellen’s Instruction book for the piano 1854; among his
pupils were Madame de Pachman, Herr Schönberger, and Albert
Jeffery; lectured before the Society of Arts on The fusion
of the romantic and classical schools of music; he was the
composer of Morceau brilliant pour le pianoforte, a quatre
mains 1848; Elfenmärchen, a fairy tale for the piano 1852; Le
Buisson pour piano 1858; Airs sung by the Christy minstrels
1860, six numbers; Old English airs 1860, six numbers; Francesca
di Rimini, meditation pour piano 1874; 48 Tonstück für das
Pianoforte 1880; Manfred prelude symphonique 1881; Sonata in
G for piano and violoncello 1883; Six mélodies pour violin
et piano 1889; Three sonatinas for the pianoforte 1889; Two
quartets for two violins, violoncello and piano 1891; his name
is attached to upwards of 100 pieces 1842–91, published in
London, Dover, Brighton, and Leipsic. _d._ 23 Brackenbury road,
Hammersmith, London 2 Sept. 1891. _Biograph iv_ 242 (1880);
_I.L.N. 12 Sept. 1891 p._ 334 _portrait_; _The Times 3 Sept.
1891 p._ 7.

PRALL, RICHARD. _b._ 1832; passed as a solicitor 1854, of the
firm of Nickinson, Prall, and Nickinson at Rochester, Brompton,
Stroud, and Gillingham; town clerk of Rochester 1870 to death;
official receiver in bankruptcy for Kent; clerk to Rochester
school board and to the Medway conservancy board. _d._ Hillside,
Frindsbury, Rochester 20 Oct. 1895.