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Probyn, Stanley Clifford, brother of Percy Clifford Probyn (q.v.); b. July 7, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (R); exhibitioner 1891; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1895, matric. Michaelmas 1895; B.A. 1899; M.A. 1903; served in Great War I; temp. Capt. 9th Batt. London Regt. Dec. 23, 1914; Railway Transport Officer Sept. 9, 1915; m. Sept. 11, 1913, Nest Morgan, of South Kensington; d. Aug. 30, 1946.

Priestley-Cooper, Edward Becher, son of Edward Priestley-Cooper MC FRIBA and Violet Elizabeth, d. of Maj. Edward French Becher RA, of Capri, Italy; b. 20 Nov. 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (R); left July 1940; Roy. Signals 1943-59 (Capt. ), served Middle East, Egypt, Malaya and Germany, retd. and transf. to RARO Dec. 1959; took the additional name of Becher by deed poll 10 Nov. 1982; m. 22 Apr. 1950 Hilda Mary, d. of Maj. Alfred Reginald Roberts RE, of Broughton, Lancs; d. 1 Dec. 1994.

Praed, Bulkley Campbell Mackworth, only son of Campbell Praed, of London; b. Dec. 6, 1875; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (R); left April 1892.

POYNTER, SIR EDWARD JOHN, BART., only son of Ambrose Poynter FRIBA, Park Street, Westminster, architect and Inspector, HM Schools of Design, and his first wife Emma, dau. of Rev. Edward Forster; b. 20 Mar 1836; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); Min. Can. 1849; left Whitsun 1849; went to Ipswich GS and then to Brighton Coll.; studied art in England 1854-6, Paris 1856-9; a painter; ARA Jan 1869, RA 29 Jun 1876, President Royal Academy 4 Nov 1896-1918; member, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1883; Slade Professor of Art, University Coll. London 1871-5; Director for Art and Principal of National Art Training School, South Kensington 1875-81; Director, National Gallery 1894-1905; FSA 7 Jun 1894; member, Society of Dilettanti 1895; knighted 25 Nov 1896; created baronet 2 Aug 1902; KCVO 3 Jun 1913; GCVO 3 Jun 1918; Hon. DCL Oxford 1898; Hon. LittD Cambridge 1898; author, Ten Lectures on Art 1879; m. 9 Aug 1866 Agnes, dau. of Rev. George Browne Macdonald, Wolverhampton, Staffs., Wesleyan Methodist minister; d. 26 Jul 1919.

Powers, Carol, son of Orville Watson Powers, of Brooklyn, Mass, U.S.A., by Carolyn, daughter of Charles John Stickney, of Connecticut, U.S.A.; b. Dec. 18, 1884; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (R); left July 1903; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1903; B.A. 1906; M.A. 1916; asst. master, St. Edmund's School, Canterbury, May 1907; d. Dec. 22, 1959.

Power, John Charles, son of Charles Montague Power OBE MC, sec. Westminster Hosp., and Rosalind, d. of Francis Rawlings of Woodside, Surrey; b. 14 Aug. 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (R); left July 1942; Magdalene Coll. Camb., matric. 1942, BA 1949, MA 1951; RE 1942-7 (2nd Lieut. ), served NW Europe and Middle East; SASR (TA) 1949-60 (Maj. ); ERD 1960; a civil engineer, AMICE 1955, FICE 1966; civil engineer George Wimpey & Co. 1954-64; managing estimator George Wimpey & Co. Ltd. 1974-84; m. 27 Apr. 1957 Jean Helen, d. of Stuart Revels MB, med. practitioner, of Quarndon, Derbs; d. 23 Apr. 2008.

Powell, Palgrave Dawson Turner, son of Edward Turner Powell, of West Brompton, by Florence, daughter of the Rev. John Davis Letts, Vicar of St. Ann, Stamford Hill; b. Nov. 4, 1897: adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (R); left Dec. 1915; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1916; 2nd Lieut. Welsh Regt. Aug. 16, 1916; Lieut. Feb. 16, 1918; served in Great War I; a motor agent; served in Great War II as Capt. R.A.O.C. (T. A.); transferred to R.E.M.E. Oct. 1, 1942; Major; M.B.E. (Italy) June 28, 1945; m. Elsie Clarice, daughter of George Carpenter, of Highgate; d. 1985.

Poole, Herbert Henry, son of Herbert James Poole, solicitor; b. May 13, 1882; adm. Jan. 16, 1896 (R); left Jan. 1899; d. Jan. 10, 1961.

Poole, Gerald Richard, son of John Sydney Philip Poole LDS, dental surgeon, of Hayes, Kent, and Helen Dora, d. of Richard Charles Cockerill of Leigh, Essex; b. 11 June 1939; adm. Jan. 1953 (R); left July 1957; an insurance broker 1960-4; sales man. of steel co. 1965-76, man. dir. 1977-; retd. to Aberporth, Ceredigion, and ran holiday cottages; m. 12 Sept. 1964 Angela Claire, d. of John Henry Snell, co. dir., of Harbledown, Kent; d. 6 Jan. 2015.

Ponder, Frank Vaulouve, brother of Eric Milton Ponder (q.v.); b. June 5, 1895; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left Easter 1912; a clerk in the Local Government Guarantee Soc. 1912; 2nd Lieut. Bucks Batt. (T.F.) Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Sept. 16, 1917, attached M.G.C.; served in France and Flanders; m. May 30, 1925, Mary Mona, younger daughter of John Patterson, of Beckenham, Kent; d. June 6, 1929.