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.
POWER, JAMES ROBERT; b. 12 Dec 1803; adm. 10 Feb 1815.
POWER, HUGH ALEXANDER, son of Henry Power FRCS, Great Cumberland Place, London, and his first cousin Ann, dau. of Thomas Simpson, Whitby, Yorks., banker; b. 11 Mar 1870; adm. 22 Sep 1882 (G); left Jul 1886; mining engineer; m. Frances Theodora, elder dau. of Henry Hook; d. 1913, while on a voyage from Karachi to Bombay.
Power, Henry-Eustace, only son of Hugh Alexander Power (q.v.); b. Feb. 23, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left July 1915; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1916; Lieut. East Surrey Regt. Sept. 12, 1917; attached R.F.C.; Observer June 29, 1918; served in Great War I; shot down while flying Sept. 1, 1918, and landed in Holland from a Dutch boat; rejoined the Army March 1920; recommissioned in the R.A.F. June 1921; Flight Lieut. April 23, 1930; Sqdn. Ldr. April 1, 1937; m. Maria Johanna, only daughter of Emile von Koninghberg, of the Hague, sometime chief engineer to the Roumanian Govt.; killed in a flying accident at Lincoln on May 26, 1937·
Powell-Jones, John Owen Home, son of Henry Ellis Powell-Jones and Evelyn Laing, d. of Erskine Sandilands Home of West Reston, Berwickshire; b. 2 Sept. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left July 1934; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxf. July 1934 but did not matnculate; area man. Shell agency Addis Ababa; Derbyshire Yeomanry and Somaliland Camel Corps in WW2 (Maj.); co. manager Lagos, Nigeria, later National Trust official GB; m. 15 Jan. 1950 Rosalind Marion Wallis, d. of Paul Jewitt of Wherwell, Hants; d. 7 Sept. 1978.
POWELL, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1724/5.