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.
Pollock, Edward Denis, son of Rev. Edward Downing Pollock, Vicar of Oxton, Cheshire; b. 13 Aug. 1910; adm. May 1924 (R); left July 1924.
Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell, only son of Joseph Pollard, M.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone, by Helen Dora Colebrook, daughter of Frederick Hendricks, F.F.A., F.S.A., of Kensington; b. Jan. 6, 1884; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (R); left Dec. 1903; 2nd Lieut. 25th Cyclist Batt. London Regt. May 9, 1912; Lieut. Nov. 6, 1914; Capt. June 1, 1916; special correspondent of the Daily Express 1912-20; Staff Officer (Intelligence) War Office 1916-18; at the Irish Office 1920-2; sporting editor of Country Life 1922; an authority on ancient and modern fire-arms; admitted to the Middle Temple Oct. 24, 1918; Major, General Staff (War Office) 1940; Chevalier, Imperial Order, Red Arrows of Spain; author of The Secret Societies of Ireland (1922) and other works; m. 1914 Ruth Marie, daughter of Francis Gibbons, of Penn Hall, Staffs.; d. Mar. 1966.
Plowman, John Frederick, son of George Richard Plowman of Hampstead and Ida Clarice, d. of Frederick John Ruse of Hampstead; b. 11 June 1916; adm. May 1930 (R); left July 1932; RA 1940-6 (Maj.), Croix de Guerre 1944, despatches (NW Europe) Apr. 1946; a wine shipper; Mas ter of Wine 1954; chairman Saccone & Speed Ltd 1975; m. 8 Mar. 1947 Elsie Frances, d. of Frank A. Bristow of Effingham, Surrey; d. 19 Feb. 1987.