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.

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).

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.

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)]

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]

POYNER, ---; b.; adm.; QS; left 1553 (Chapter Muniments).

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.

Poyser, John, son of the Rev. Thomas John Poyser, of Hampstead, by Mary Atkinson; b. July 17, 1883; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (H); Q.S. 1898; left July 1902; a clerk in the vote office, House of Commons, 1904-12, 1st class clerk Ministry of Health 1912-19; principal clerk 1919-29; asst. head of Branch 1929-32; principal 1932-40; general inspector 1940-9; retired 1949; chairman Brighton Rent Tribunal 1951-8; called to the bar at the Middle Temple May 13, 1908; temp. Capt. A.S.C. Dec. 1, 1915; served in France Jan. 1915 - Dec. 1918; mentioned in despatches L.G. Nov. 8, 1918 and March 16, 1919; O.B.E. June 3, 1919; m. Feb. 15, 1941, Phyllis Marjorie, second daughter of Sydney Claris, of Arkley, Herts.

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

Prance, Miles Howard, son of Miles Herbert Prance, solicitor, of Sutton, Surrey, and Amy, d. of Richard Armstrong, architect; b. 29 Nov. 1900; adm. Sept. 1914 (G); left Apr. 1919; adm. a solici­tor Aug. 1924; practised in London; Maj. RA (TA) Apr. 1938; TD Mar. 1946; m. 5 Jan. 1933 Phyllis Madeleine, d. of Arthur Emil Foucard, merchant, of Sutton, Surrey; d. 9 Mar. 1989.