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POWNALL, FRANK, youngest son of George Pownall FRIBA, Bloomsbury Square, London, architect; b. 16 Apr 1848; adm. 23 Jan 1862; rowed v. Eton 28 Jul 1864; Dean Thomas exhibitioner 1866; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Oct 1866; BA 1870; MA 1873; adm. Mifddle Temple 14 Nov 1867, Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1871, called to bar 17 Nov 1873; equity draftsman and conveyancer; Master, Grocers’ Co. 1892-3; Registrar, Royal College of Music 1896-1913; m. 12 Aug 1874 Helen Augusta, youngest dau. of Sir William Henry Stephenson KCB, Bolton Row, Mayfair, London, Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue; d. 26 Jan 1916.

POWLETT, ROBERT, son of William Powlett, Aldgate, London, and Jane ---; bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 30 Nov 1724; adm. Jan 1734/5; left 1736; went to Charterhouse Sch., adm. scholar 18 Jul 1738, exhibitioner 10 Aug 1743; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1743; BA 1747; ordained; m. Anne, dau. of John Perryman, Sydenham, Oxfordshire; d. c. 1766 (will of Rev. Robert Powlett, clerk, New Windsor, Berks., proved PCC 20 Mar 1766).

POWLETT, PERCY, brother of Charles Powlett (adm. 1740/1, qv); b.; adm. (aged 6) Jan 1741/2 (Hawkins'); entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 23 Mar 1756; 1st Lieut., HMS Buckingham 27 Feb 1771; m. 19 Jul 1758 Elizabeth Packham (IGI). [Percy Powlett, Winchester, Hampshire, will PCC 15 Aug 1776]

POWLETT, CHARLES, son of Percy Powlett (qv); b. 17 Jun 1764; adm. 26 Oct 1774; at Charterhouse Sch. Oct 1777 – Dec 1779; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Oct 1781, aged 17, matr. 1781; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1787, priest Sep 1789 (both Lincoln, lit. dim. from Winchester); Rector of Winslade, Hampshire 25 Sep 1789-94, 1 Jul 1796-1811; Rector of St. Martin by Looe, Cornwall 1790-1807; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1794; Rector of Blackford, Somerset 1794-6; Rector of Itchen Stoke, Hampshire 1796; Rector of High Roding, Essex, from 18 Jul 1817; lived at Outreau, near Boulogne, France; m. 29 Nov 1796 Anne, eldest dau. of Rev. William Johnson Temple, Vicar of St. Gluvias, Cornwall; d. at Brussels, Belgium Jun 1834.

POWLETT, CHARLES, eldest natural son of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton KG PC, and his mistress Lavinia Beswick (otherwise Fenton), actress; b. 27 Dec 1727; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1740/1 (Hawkins'); left 1744; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Jun 1753, aged 24; MA [check] 1755; ordained deacon (Winchester) 23 Dec 1753, priest (St. Davids) 9 Jun 1754; [Chaplain, 55th Foot 15 Jan 1756 ?]; Chaplain to Duke of Bolton; Curate, Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, from 1763; Chaplain, 1st Dragoon Guards 11 Jun 1766 – [still in Army List 1790]; Rector of Winslade, Hampshire 8 Jun 1782-9; Rector of St. Martin by Looe, Cornwall 2 Jul 1785 – Apr 1790; Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall 1789; one of the Committee which revised the laws of cricket at the Star and Garter, Pall Mall 25 Feb 1774; a well-known hunting man in Hampshire, and author many hunting songs; m. 1st, 23 Mar 1755 Elizabeth, dau. of James Gunman, Greenwich Hospital; m. 2nd, Anne ---; d. 29 Jan 1809. [perhaps m. 2nd, 25 Apr 1792 Anne Mariet (IGI)]

POWLET, EDMUND; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1734/5; m. 26 Jul 1753 Sarah Jones, Chelsea, Middlesex. [Perhaps son of Thomas Powlett, and Anne ---, bapt. St. Clement Danes 9 Nov 1730 (IGI, sic)].

POWIS, ---; b. ; in school list 1731. [see Bowes, Gabriel]

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, THOMAS, son of Thomas Power, London; b. ; adm. ; KS 1672 ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1678, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1678, aged 18, scholar 1679, matr.1679 ; BA 1681/2; MA 1685; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1684, Tutor 1686-92 (he evidently retained his Fellowship until his death, despite his departure for the West Indies); ordained deacon 16 Feb 1689/90, priest 22 May 1692 (both Rochester); Preacher, Bermuda 28 Mar 1693; accompanied John Goddard, newly appointed Lieut.-Governor of Bermuda, on his voyage out there in 1693, arriving in Bermuda 10 Aug 1693, where he found himself the only Church of England clergyman (see letter from Power to Rev. Dr. (James) Blair (DD), 24 Aug 1693, preserved in Trinity Coll. Cambridge MS R.2.38); Rector of St. Mary’s, Antigua Jan 1695; latterly Rector of St. John’s, Nevis ; contributed the Twelfth Satire to Dryden’s translation of Juvenal; four items by him are included in the Examen Poeticum, 1698; a Latin verse translation by him of Book I of Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in 1691, and his translations into Latin hexameters of Books II-XII are preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Trinity Coll. MS R.2.38 contains a copy of his Latin translation of Books II-VII, while Trinity Coll. C.1.64 (now MS R.2.37) is a copy of the printed folio edition of Paradise Lost, 1688, with an interlinear Latin translation of Books VIII-XII in Power’s hand); understood to have composed a poem on ‘The Sugar-Cane’, but this was never published and no text of it has been located ; d. 14 December 1698 (M.I. St. John’s, Antigua).

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.