PORTMAN, Wyndham Berkeley (eld. son of capt. Wyndham B. Portman, R.N. 1804–83). b. 15 May 1831; attended all race meetings and had great knowledge of horse breeding; founder and proprietor of Horse and hound 30 Wellington st. Strand, London March 1884 to death. d. Alipose house, Worcester road, Sutton, Surrey 18 Sept. 1890. bur. Brookwood cemetery 20 Sept. Horse and hound 20 Sept. 1890 p. 573, 27 Sept. p. 585; Baily’s Mag. Oct. 1890 p. 281.

PORTON, William. b. on board the Saturn off Gibraltar 12 Aug. 1783; fought at Santa Cruz and Trafalgar; lived at Wolverhampton more than 60 years. d. Wolverhampton Oct. 1883, aged 100 years and 2 months.

PORTSMOUTH, John Charles Wallop 3 Earl of (son of 2 earl of Portsmouth 1742–97). b. Hurstbourne park near Andover 18 Dec. 1767; styled viscount Lymington 1767–97; succeeded his father as 3 earl of Portsmouth 16 May 1797; hereditary bailiff of Burley; all his property vested in trustees 1790; placed in care of a medical attendant, Mr. Coombe 1808–14; most cruelly treated by his second wife; declared to have been incapable of managing his affairs from 1 Jany. 1809 by a commission which sat 10–28 Feb. 1823. d. Hurstbourne park, 14 July 1853. A genuine report of the proceedings to enquire into the sanity of the earl of Portsmouth (1823); G.M. xl 307 (1852).

PORTSMOUTH, Newton Fellowes, 4 earl of (brother of the preceding). b. Hurstbourne park 26 June 1772; styled the hon. Newton Wallop 1772–94; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1792; took the name of Fellowes in lieu of Wallop by R.L. 9 Aug. 1794, on succeeding to Eggesford, north Devon, on death of his uncle Henry Arthur Fellowes; capt. independent company South Devon militia 6 Feb. 1795; M.P. Andover 1802–20; M.P. North Devon 1832–7; capt. 1 East Devon regt. of militia 26 July 1820; succeeded his brother as 4 earl of Portsmouth 14 July 1853. d. Eggesford, North Devon 9 Jany. 1854. G.M. xli 190 (1854).

PORTSMOUTH, Isaac Newton Wallop, 5 earl of (son of the preceding). b. Castle hill, North Devon 11 Jany. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838 and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 16 lancers 27 March 1846, sold out 16 April 1847; styled Isaac Newton Fellowes 1843–53; styled viscount Lymington 1853–4; succeeded his father as 5 earl of Portsmouth 9 Jany. 1854, and took name of Wallop in lieu of Fellowes; ran horses near Aldershot as Mr. Fellowes 1854; as lord Portsmouth won races with Aaconora 1855; his Buccaneer a favourite for the Derby 1859; a steward of the Jockey club 1859; master of his own fox hounds in the Anstey country, Dulverton 1847–50; master of the Vine hounds 1850–4; master of hounds at Eggesford 1854. d. Eggesford house 4 Oct. 1891, will proved at £58,166. Baily’s mag. Sept. 1861 pp. 219–22 portrait, Nov. 1891 pp. 353–4; Sporting Mirror April 1883 pp. 113–15 portrait.

POST, Jacob (son of John Post). b. Whitefriars, London 12 Sept. 1774; educ. Ackworth school 1782–7; resided in Islington many years; a founder of the North London and Islington auxiliary of the Bible society 1812; author of Some popular customs amongst Christians, questioned and compared with gospel precepts and examples 1839; On the history and mystery of the Sacraments 1846; Some reasons for continuing to refuse the payment of all ecclesiastical demands 1849; The Bible the book for all 1848, reprinted 1849 and 1856. d. Church st. Islington, London 1 April 1855. bur. Winchmore hill near London. J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889) 25; Annual Monitor 1856 p. 155; J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books ii 428–30 (1867).

POSTANS, Robert Baxter. b. 1787; in naval service of H.E.I.C. to 1840; saw Napoleon i lying in state at St. Helena and attended his funeral 1821, and was present at the reinterment in Les Invalides, Paris 1840; a great friend of Henry Mayhew and George Hodder; associated with the preliminaries of Punch and was an original contributor from 17 July 1841; his pen and ink etchings were unequalled, the constant work on these caused total blindness from 1884. d. Southsea 6 July 1892 aged 105. bur. Eastney cemetery. M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch (1895) 12, 17, 19, 283.

POSTE, Beale (2 son of Wm. Poste one of the four common pleaders of the city of London). b. Hayle place near Maidstone 1793; educ. Trin. hall Camb. LL.B. 1819; C. of High Halden, Kent; C. of Milstead, Kent; a member of British Archæological association 1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History of the college of All Saints, Maidstone 1847; The coins of Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853; Britannic researches or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853; Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brought within the limits of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an atlas of coins 1861. d. Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872).

POSTGATE, John (son of Thomas Postgate, builder). b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1820; in the service of a grocer where everything was adulterated; M.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.C.S. 1854; L.S.A. July 1845; a surgeon at Birmingham from 1854; examined before select Committee of house of commons on adulteration 1855, the members for Birmingham Wm. Scholefield and G. F. Muntz introduced nine bills dealing with adulteration, into the house of commons under his influence 1860–75; promoted the National association for promotion of social science 1857; professor of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology at Queen’s college, Birmingham 7 May 1860; author of Sanitary aspects of Birmingham 1852; A few words on adulteration 1857; Medical services and public payments 1862. d. London hospital, London 26 Sept. 1881. bur. new cemet. Birmingham, portrait by Vivian Crome in council chamber at Scarborough. Edgbastonia Feb. 1882 pp. 20–3 portrait.

POTOCKI, Count Mieceslas Francois Joseph. b. Russia 1794; excessively rich, having an income of 6,000,000 francs; came to England and was naturalized 6 Feb. 1875; left all his property to charities as he could not bear the idea of it going to his heir; before his death altered his will and left his money to his son Nicholas Potocki, who had never offended him, amount said to be £80,000 a year; his wife the countess Potocki, a musician, the friend and benefactor of F. F. Chopin the composer, sang at his death bed. d. 35 Avenue Friedland, Paris Nov. 1878. Times 7 Dec. 1878 p. 5; Willeby’s F. F. Chopin (1892) 281–2.

POTT, David. b. 9 Feb. 1812; ensign 47 Bengal N.I. 14 Sept. 1832, lieut. col. 1 May 1858 to 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Borthwickshiels, Hawick 2 Oct. 1881.

POTTER, Addison (eld. son of Addison Langhorn Potter of Heaton hall, d. 1853). b. 1820; a brewer and maltster with his father at Newcastle, head of the firm 1853; fire brick and cement manufacturer at Willington quay; chairman of Newcastle and Gateshead water co.; member of Newcastle town council 1852, alderman 1865, mayor 1873–4, 1874–5; the oldest surviving volunteer officer; captain Northumberland and Durham artillery 16 Aug. 1859, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1861 to death; C.B. 24 May 1881, invested at Windsor castle 1 July; a partner in the Stella coal co, as senior partner presented with his portrait 27 Aug. 1874, Mrs. Potter receiving a tiara of diamonds. d. Heaton hall, Newcastle 23 Feb. 1894. bur. Jesmond road cemetery 24 Feb. I.L.N. 3 March 1894 p. 254 portrait; Newcastle Weekly chronicle 24 Feb. 1894 p. 8 portrait, 3 March p. 6.

POTTER, Edmund (son of James Potter). b. Manchester 1802; calico printer at Dinting Vale, near Glossop, Derbyshire 1827, his business became one of the largest in the world; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1852–61; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; M.P. Carlisle 1861–74; resided 64 Queen’s gate, South Kensington, London; author of Calico print as an art manufacture 1852; Trade schools 1854; Practical opinions against partnership with limited liability, by a Manchester man 1855; The sugar duties 1864, 2 ed. 1864. d. Camfield place, Hatfield, Herts 26 Oct. 1883.

POTTER, Edmund Compton (son of preceding). b. Manchester 22 July 1830; partner in his father’s firm of E. Potter and Co. 1851; an art collector having one of the finest collections of cloisonné ware in the kingdom; among the pictures at his residence Rusholme hall, Lancashire was the Welsh funeral by David Cox; his collection of pictures, &c. was sold in London 22 March 1884 for £37,619. d. Brighton 6 May 1883.

POTTER, George. b. Kenilworth 1832; apprenticed to a carpenter at Coventry; came to London, employed in building firm of George Myers and son; elected a member of the Progressive society of carpenters 1854; became prominent in the lock-out in the building trades of London 1859; headed the deputation of workmen of London who welcomed Garibaldi 11 April 1864; presented by the combined trades of London and the provinces with an illuminated address and a purse of £300 in 1866; started and edited a paper entitled The Beehive 1861; member for Westminster of the London school board 27 Nov. 1873 to Nov. 1882, obtained the appointment of the educational endowment committee; contested Peterborough 3 Feb. 1874 and Preston 2 July 1886; as president of the London working men’s association opened the first trade-union congress held in St. Martin’s hall, Long Acre Aug. 1868; wrote articles on labour questions in the Contemporary Review and The Times; author of The labour question: an address to the capitalists and employers of the building trade, being a few reasons on behalf of a reduction of the hours of labour 1861. d. 21 Marney road, Wandsworth, Surrey 3 June 1893. Webb’s History of trade unionism (1894) 213, 230, 237, 256, 282; G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii 194 (1893).

POTTER, George William Killett (brother of Philip Cipriani H. Potter 1792–1871). b. 1798; admitted solicitor 1819; secondary of city of London 1831 to death, for which office he paid £5,000; clerk of the coach-makers co. to death; one of the undersheriffs of London. d. 70 Russell sq. London 12 May 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 527 (1871); Law Journal vi 334 (1871).

POTTER, Sir John (eld. son of sir Thomas Potter, first mayor of Manchester, d. 20 March 1845). b. Polefield, Prestwich, Lancs. 1815; educ. in univ. of Edinb.; head of firm of Potters and Norris, George st. Manchester, drapers and merchants 1845 to death; alderman of Manchester corporation 1845 to death, mayor 1848–51; knighted at Manchester 10 Oct. 1851; M.P. Manchester 30 March 1857 to death. d. Beech house, Pendleton, Manchester 25 Oct. 1858. Pusely’s Commercial companion, 2 ed. (1860) p. 143; G.M. v 634 (1858); I.L.N. xviii 484 (1851).

POTTER, Philip Cipriani Hambly. b. London 2 Oct. 1792; associate of Philharmonic society March 1813, a member Oct. 1813; first appeared at a Philharmonic concert 29 April 1816, when he played the pianoforte in a sextet of his own composition; studied in Vienna, Germany, and Italy 1817–21; principal professor of the pianoforte at royal academy of music March 1823 to 1859; director of the orchestral classes and conductor of the public concerts at R.A. of music 1827–59, principal of the academy 1832–59; introduced into England at the Philharmonic society’s concerts Beethoven’s concertos in C minor 1824 and in G 1825, wrote a symphony in A minor for the society, produced 1833; conductor of the Madrigal society 1855–70; treasurer of the society of British musicians 1858–65; edited 6 pieces by Beethoven 1854–60; H. Bertini’s Rudiments du pianiste 1850, and his Studies for the piano 1845; J. C. Kessler’s Twenty-four studies for the piano 1853; Chefs d’œuvres de Mozart 1837; composer of Sonata for the piano 1817; When evening draws her curtain round, a romance 1825; Studies for the piano in the major and minor keys 1827; Medora e Corrado, a cantata 1828; Trois grand trios pour le piano 1835; Etudes pour le piano forte 1840; Cipriani Potter’s celebrated octave lesson 1848; his name is attached to 40 pieces of music. d. 3 Craven Hill, Hyde park, London 26 Sept. 1871. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 2 Oct., a portrait by Bendixen and Seguin was published 1838. I.L.N. lix 339 (1871).

POTTER, Richard (son of Richard Potter, corn merchant and then brewer). b. Toad lane, Manchester 2 Jany. 1799; educ. Manchester gr. sch. 1811–5; engaged in mercantile life some years; studied optics under Dr. Dalton; read 8 papers at first three meetings of British association 1831–3; scholar of Queen’s coll. Camb. 1834, fellow Jany. 1839–43; sixth wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; L.R.C.P. 1841 but never practised; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Univ. coll. London Oct. 1841 to April 1843, and Oct. 1844 to July 1865, Emeritus professor July 1865 to death; professor of philosophy and astronomy King’s coll. Toronto June 1843 to Aug. 1844; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1846, 4 ed. 1859; An elementary treatise on optics, 2 parts 1847–51; Physical optics, or the nature and properties of light, 2 parts 1856–9; An elementary treatise on hydrostatics, 2 parts 1859–87; and of about 60 papers in scientific periodicals. d. Brookside, Cambridge 6 June 1886. Manchester School Register iii 82–4 (1874).

POTTER, Richard (only son of Richard Potter, M.P. Wigan, d. Penzance 13 July 1842). b. Manchester 1817; educ. Lond. univ. and Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his college; barrister M.T. 18 Jany. 1842; lost much of his income in French revolution 1848; member of Price and Co. Gloucester, with branches at Grimsby and Barrow in Furness 1850; constructed the wooden huts for the English and the French in the Crimea 1854; a director of Great western railway 1849–56, 1863, chairman Aug. 1863–5; consolidated the G.W.R. stocks and established a superannuation fund for the work people; a director of Grand trunk railway of Canada 1862, president 1869–76; Beatrice Potter, authoress, is his daughter. d. Box house, Minchinhampton, Gloucs. 1 Jany. 1892. Times 4 Jany. 1892 p. 10.

POTTER, Robert. Attorney in Dublin; defended Wm. Smith O’Brien 1849; law agent to Limerick corporation; M.P. Limerick 15 July 1852 to death. d. 1 Oct. 1854.

POTTER, Thomas Joseph (son of George Potter). b. Scarborough 9 June 1828; received into Church of Rome at Stockhead park, Beverley 24 Feb. 1847, and joined Stonyhurst college; entered All Hallow’s college, Dublin 24 Oct. 1854; ordained priest 28 June 1857; director of All Hallows’ college and professor of sacred eloquence 1857 to death; author of The two victories 1860; The rector’s daughter 1861; Legends, lyrics, and hymns 1862; Light and shade 1864; Percy Grange or the ocean of life 1864, 2 ed. 1884; A panegyric of St. Patrick 1864; The spoken word or the art of extempore preaching 1872. d. All Hallow’s college, Dublin 31 Aug. 1873.

POTTER, Thomas Rossell (son of John Potter, farmer). b. West Hallam, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1799; resided at Wymeswold, Leics. 1814 to death; kept a school at Wymeswold; hunted with the Quorn hounds; wrote many papers and poems in the Sporting Magazine under pseudonym of Old Grey 1827–40; editor of the Leicester Advertiser 1849–58, of the Ilkeston Pioneer 1856, of the Leicester Guardian 1858, and of the Loughborough Monitor 1865; discovered a British camp on Beacon hill, Leics.; F.R. Soc. of literature 1849; hon. life member of Leicester literary and philosophical soc. 1849; author of The history and antiquities of Charnwood Forest 1842; Walks round Loughborough 1837; Rambles round Loughborough 1868; Poems 1881. d. Wymeswold 19 April 1873. The Reliquary, July 1873 pp. 17–20; Antiquary 10 May 1873 p. 225.

POTTER, William (only son of William Potter, merchant). b. Liverpool 1838; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 30 April 1861, bencher 25 Nov. 1881 to death; went northern circuit; Q.C. 24 March 1880; master of the northern bar lodge of freemasons; contested Northamptonshire, northern division July 1892. d. 5 Papers buildings, Temple, London 5 Dec. 1893. bur. St. Margaret’s, Princes road, Liverpool.

POTTER, William Auboné (eld. son of Edward Potter, M.I.C.E.) b. Cramlington, Northumberland Oct. 1832; educ. King’s coll. London to 1850; apprentice to his father, a viewer at Cramlington collieries 1850–5; viewer to Day and Twibell, Monk Bretton 1855; engaged in connection with accidents at the Lundhill colliery March 1857, the Edmund’s main colliery Dec. 1862, and the Oaks colliery Dec. 1866; viewer of the Silkstone and Dodsworth collieries 1863; ensign 37 West Yorkshire rifle volunteer corps (Barnsley) 2 Nov. 1860; with Mr. Embleton founded the Midland institute of mining and mechanical engineers, secretary; viewer of the Cramlington collieries 1868 to death; government check viewer of Greenwich hospital estates; mayor of Tynemouth 1875; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1867. d. Tynemouth 20 June 1887. bur. Cramlington church. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xci 421–3 (1888).

POTTER, William Norwood. b. London 28 Aug. 1840; commenced playing chess at Simpson’s divan, London 1867; defeated Blackburne and De Vere in the handicap tournay, city of London chess club 1870, took second prize at tournay 1874–5; editor of City of London chess magazine 1874–5; drew a match with Mason 1879; editor of the Westminster papers 1874; chess editor of Land and Water to 1884; with Steinmetz and Zukertort editor of article on chess in Encyclopædia Britannica v 592–603 (1876); with Steinmetz conducted 2 games by correspondence against Vienna. d. Sutton, Surrey 13 March 1895. Westminster Papers 1 May 1876 p. 4 portrait; Chess Monthly April 1895 p. 225 portrait.

POTTINGER, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (5 son of Eldred Curwen Pottinger, d. Aug. 1814). b. Mount Pottinger, co. Down 25 Dec. 1789; cadet in the Bombay infantry 1804; explored the country between India and Persia 1809–10; served during the Mahratta war 1805; collector of Ahmadnagar; major 13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1825; resident in Cutch 1825; lieut. col. of 24 N.I. 17 March 1829 to 1839, of 14 N.I. 1839–40, and of 69 N.I. 1840 to 19 Aug. 1841; political agent in Sind 1836–40; created baronet 27 April 1840; envoy and plenipotentiary in China and superintendent of British trade May 1841; cooperated in the capture of Amoy, Chusan, Chinhai, and Ningpo 1841; signed the treaty of Nanking 29 Aug. 1842, by which Hongkong was ceded to England; governor and commander-in-chief of Hongkong 5 April 1843 to Feb. 1844; G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; P.C. 23 May 1844; voted freedom of city of London 13 Feb. 1845, admitted 17 July 1845; voted an annuity of £1,500 by house of commons June 1845; col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 4 June 1845 to death; governor of Cape of Good Hope 28 Sept. 1846 to Aug. 1847; governor of Madras 4 Aug. 1847 to 28 April 1854, took his seat 7 April 1848; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841, L.G. in India 11 Nov. 1851; author of Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde 1816. d. Valetta, Malta 18 March 1856. bur. Valetta, portrait painted by sir Francis Grant. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1846 pp. 426–42 portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii 178, 828 (1884); I.L.N. ii 24 (1843) portrait.

POTTINGER, John (2 son of Thomas Pottinger of Mount Pottinger). b. May 1815; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 9 June 1831; lieut. col. 13 May 1859, retired on full pay as M.G. 1 Sept. 1863; commissary general 27 Dec. 1861 to 1 Sept. 1863; as brigade major served in Persian campaign 1856–7, medal with clasp; commanded Ahmednugger field force during Indian mutiny 1857–8; sheriff of Leitrim 1867; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Mount Pottinger, Carrick-on-Shannon 12 April 1877.

POTTS, Alexander William. b. 1834; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the football and stroke of the boat; at St. John’s coll. Camb., second classic, second chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861, LL.D.; fellow of his college 1858; a master at the Charterhouse 1858; an assistant master Rugby 1862–8; the first head master of Fettes college, Edinburgh July 1868 to death, the college prospered under his management; author of Hints towards Latin prose composition 1869, 2 ed. 1870; Passages for translation into Latin prose 1879; with C. Darnell Aditus faciliores, a Latin construing book 1875; Aditus faciliores Græci 1878; and with W. A. Heard Camenarum Flosculos 1877, 3 ed. 1886. d. The lodge, Fettes college 15 Nov. 1889. bur. Dean cemetery 19 Nov. The Scotsman 18 Nov. 1889 p. 7, 20 Nov. p. 6; School sermons by A. W. Potts (1891), memoir pp. xi–xl portrait.

POTTS, George (2 son of William Potts of Kelso). b. London 1807; contested Barnstaple 30 March 1857; M.P. Barnstaple 30 April 1859 to death; resided 29 Upper Seymour st. London and Trafalgar house, Barnstaple. d. Haverstock hill, London 20 Sept. 1863.

POTTS, John (son of William Potts, printer, d. 1867). b. Banbury 2 Dec. 1830; proprietor and editor of the Banbury Guardian 1867 to death; ensign of the Banbury volunteers 24 Feb. 1860, lieut. 21 Oct. 1862; obtained medals at National rifle association at Wimbledon; president of Banbury bowling club; presented by provincial grand lodge of Oxfordshire with a charity jewel with 13 clasps 1884. d. Banbury 28 April 1892. bur. 2 May. Banbury guardian 5 May 1892 p. 8.

POTTS, Joseph Trumperant. b. 19 April 1815; managing proprietor of Saunders’ News-Letter, Dublin 1846 to death; owner of landed property in Galway, Roscommon, and the King’s and Queen’s counties. d. 20 Fitzwilliam square, Dublin 17 Oct. 1871. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 20 Oct. Newspaper Press 1 Nov. 1871 p. 238.

POTTS, Robert (son of Robert Potts). b. Lambeth 1805; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 1828; 25th wrangler 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; private tutor at Cambridge; hon. LL.D. William and Mary college, Virginia; author of Euclid’s Elements of geometry 1845, several editions, it had a great sale in America and the colonies; A view of the Evidences of Christianity and the Horæ Paulinæ of W. Paley 1850; Liber Cantabrigiensis, 2 parts 1855–63; Open scholarships in the university of Cambridge 1866, 2 ed. 1883; Aphorisms, maxims, &c. 1875; Elementary arithmetic with brief notices of its history 1876; Elementary algebra with brief notices of its history 1879–80. d. Park terrace, Cambridge 5 Aug. 1885.

POULDEN, George (eld. son of Alexander Poulden). b. Portsea, Hants. 1802; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; counsel to post office; revising barrister on western circuit; recorder of Portsmouth April 1866 to death. d. 9A Stanhope place, Hyde Park, London 12 June 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Law Times xlv 171 (1868).

POULETT, John Poulett, 5 Earl (1 son of 4 earl Poulett 1756–1819). b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1783; styled viscount Hinton 1788–1819; educ. Harrow, matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 12 June 1801; colonel 2 Somerset militia 20 Sept. 1804 to 23 Feb. 1819; colonel of 1 Somerset militia 23 Feb. 1819 to 1852. d. Hinton St. George, Crewkerne 20 June 1864, will proved under £120,000.

POULETT, George (brother of preceding). b. 10 May 1786; entered navy 2 Aug. 1797; captain 31 July 1806; naval aide-de-camp to William iv and Victoria Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; receiver general of the land and assessed taxes in Somerset 1840; V.A. 21 June 1850; fell dead from his horse while hunting near West Marden, Sussex 11 Feb. 1854. G.M. xli 420 (1854).

POULSON, George (2 son of John Poulson of Petersfield, Hants.). b. 1785; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 11 Feb. 1823; author of Beverlac, or the antiquities and history of the town of Beverley in the county of York, 2 vols. 1829; The history and antiquities of the seignory of Holderness in the east riding of the county of York, 2 vols. Hull 1840–1; edited Henry Wm. Ball’s Social history and antiquities of Barton-upon-Humber 1856. d. Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincoln 12 Jany. 1858. W. Boyne’s Yorkshire library (1869) 152–6, 165–6; G.M. April 1858 p. 449.

POULTNEY, Edward. b. 1821; founder of The Home in the East reformatory, Old Ford Bow 1852. d. 8 Dec. 1853.

POVEY, John (son of James Povey of Birmingham, vocalist, called the Warwickshire Incledon). b. Birmingham 1799; a bass singer; sang at Drury Lane 1817, at English opera house 1821; made his first appearance in New York as Hawthorn in Love in a village 7 May 1827; actor and business agent at Park theatre 1827–49; had a complimentary benefit at the Broadway theatre previously to his return to England 26 May 1849. d. Surrey st. Strand, London 2 May 1867. Ireland’s New York stage i 518, ii 529 (1867); Era 12 May 1867 p. 10.

POWELL, Baden (eld. son of Baden Powell, sheriff of Kent). b. Stamford Hill, Middlesex 22 Aug. 1796; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Midhurst, Kent 1820–1; V. of Plumstead 1821–7; F.R.S. 13 May 1824, F.G.S. 1837; Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford Feb. 1827 to death; wrote many papers in scientific periodicals, chiefly on optical questions; member of the Oxford university commission 1851; m. 10 March 1846 Henrietta Grace, eld. dau. of Wm. Henry Smyth, president of royal astronomical society, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 April 1870; author of History of natural philosophy 1834; The connexion of natural and divine truth 1838; Tradition unveiled 1839, Supplement 1840; Essays on the spirit of the inductive philosophy and the unity of worlds 1855, 2 ed. 1856; The study of natural theology 1856; Christianity without Judaism 1856, 2 ed. 1866; The order of nature 1859; contributed an essay On the study of the evidences of Christianity to Essays and Reviews 1860 pp. 94–144 five editions, to which there were 14 replies. d. 6 Stanhope st. Hyde park gardens, London 11 June 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. G.M. ix 204 (1860); I.L.N. xviii 419 where he is shown lecturing on the rotation of the earth, 468 (1851).

POWELL, Caleb (eld. son of Eyre Burton Powell, barrister, d. 1800). b. 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1813; called to the Irish bar 1817; M.P. Limerick county 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847; sheriff of Limerick 1858. d. Clonshavoy, near Limerick 24 Feb. 1881.

POWELL, Henry J. Equestrian actor; lessee of the Pavilion theatre, London 1867–8; lessee of Sadler’s Wells theatre; travelled the provinces with a dramatic and equestrian company 1873–8; fell into a stream of water and was suffocated, found dead on Wimbledon common, Surrey 4 May 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 May. Era 19 May 1878 p. 12.

POWELL, John Hardman (son of Wm. Powell of Birmingham, who d. 1861). b. Newhall st. Birmingham 2 March 1827; pupil of Augustus Welby Pugin 1843–52; artistic head of firm of J. Hardman and Co. Birmingham 1852; some of his principal works were the heraldic and other glass in the houses of parliament 1847–59, Westminster hall 1849, St. Stephen’s crypt 1860, Worcester cathedral 1859–75, St. Neot’s, Hants. 1859–80, Beverley minster 1856–94, St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham 1869, the Catholic church, Cambridge 1888, and St. John the Baptist, Norwich 1894; m. 1850 Anne, dau. of A. W. Pugin. d. 12 Lee road, Blackheath, Kent 2 March 1895. bur. in the Pugin chantry in St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate. Times 4 March 1895 p. 10; Tablet 9 March 1895.

POWELL, John Joseph (eld. son of Thomas Powell). b. Gloucester 3 Sept. 1816; barrister M.T. 16 April 1847, bencher 23 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1876; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1863; recorder of Wolverhampton 21 May 1864 to death; judge of county court, circuit No. 11, (West Riding of Yorkshire), and joint judge of Leeds in circuit No. 14, 9 April 1884 to Oct. 1885; judge of circuit No. 47, Greenwich, etc. Oct. 1885 to death; M.P. Gloucester 1862–5; contested Gloucester 3 Feb. 1874; contested Weymouth 17 Nov. 1868. d. suddenly while on a visit at Widmore lodge, Bickley 15 Sept. 1891. Law Times 19 Sept. 1891 p. 355.

POWELL, Joseph Martin (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b. Gloucester 2 June 1822; apprenticed to John Cowmeadow of Ross, bookseller; worked with Bradbury and Evans London to 1844; a compositor in America 1844–5; country traveller for S. and T. Sharwood of the Austin letter foundry 1845–52; executed commissions for Barrett and Co. bible publishers, London 1845, and other firms to death; founder and proprietor of Printers’ Register 1863, and editor to death; a type broker at 3 Bouverie st. 1868–74 and in St. Bride’s st. March 1874 to death. d. 14 Hillmarten road, Camden road, London 17 Sept. 1874. bur. Finchley cemetery 23 Sept. The Printers’ Register 6 Oct. 1874 pp. 182–4.

POWELL, Lewis. b. Trecastle, South Wales 1796; educ. St. George’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1818; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1818; in practice 13 John st. Berkeley sq. London from 1837, latterly in partnership with J. T. Smith; the Powell ward in St. George’s hospital is named after him; author of De rheumatismo, Edinburgh 1823. d. 13 John st. London 18 Feb. 1867. Medical Times 23 Feb. 1867 pp. 212, 213.

POWELL, Peter. b. about 1779; wrote many songs which he sang; wrote for John Parry Of the married state I sing 1845; his imitations of an oratorio and of a melodrama were extraordinary. d. Bayswater, London 20 May 1855.

POWELL, Richard Ashmore. b. 1816; cadet R.N. 24 Dec. 1831, captain 8 March 1855, retired 6 July 1871; V.A. 21 March 1878; served against the Riff pirates 1851; commanded the Vesuvius in Crimean war 1854, medal; knight commander of Charles iii for attempting to rescue a Spanish ship from Moorish pirates 1856; knight of legion of honour; C.B. 5 July 1855; commodore in the Pacific 1866–71; nautical assessor under Merchant shipping act 1876. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 24 Dec. 1892.

POWELL, Thomas. b. London 3 Sept. 1809; a playwright and literary man in London; went to U.S. of America 1849; the first editor of Frank Leslie’s Weekly 1855, and of Frank Leslie’s Ladies’ Magazine 1857; wrote several plays produced in New York and London; author of The living authors in Great Britain 1849; Living authors in America 1850; Pictures of the living authors of Great Britain 1851. d. Newark, New Jersey 13 Jany. 1887.

POWELL, Thomas Sidney. Ensign on half pay 13 May 1826; captain 6 foot 23 Jany. 1839; major 57 foot 26 Sept. 1848, placed on h.p. 9 Feb. 1855; lieut. colonel 53 foot 6 April 1855 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; killed in action at Burdee, near Allahabad 1 Nov. 1857.

POWELL, Walter. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 31 Jany. 1800, colonel commandant 1 May 1849, retired on full pay 3 Nov. 1851; M.G. 20 June 1855. d. Burlington st. Bath 5 June 1858.

POWELL, Walter (son of a merchant). b. Tottenham, Middlesex May 1822; taken to Tasmania 1823; a clerk at Launceston 1834; clerk to an auctioneer Melbourne 1845–8; went to England 1848, 1856, 1860; conducted a business in the hardware line Melbourne 1849 to death; purchased land on the discovery of the gold fields; connected with the Wesleyan church and many charities; partner with Henry Reed, Australian merchant 6 Broad st. buildings, London 1 Jany. 1861 to death. d. 79 Lancaster gate, London 21 Jany. 1868. bur. Marylebone cemet. Finchley. B. Gregory’s Thorough man of business, W. Powell (1871) portrait.

POWELL, Walter (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b. The Gaer, Newport, Monmouth 17 April 1842; educ. Rugby 1858; a colliery proprietor; M.P. Malmesbury 17 Nov. 1868 to death; resided Dunestay house, near Chippenham; while in the balloon Saladin alone, was carried out to sea from Bridport and not again heard of 10 Dec. 1881, a reward of £200 offered for his recovery. Times 13 Dec. 1881 pp. 6, 9; Graphic xxiv 633 (1881) portrait; I.L.N. lxxix 616 (1881) portrait.

POWELL, Walter Rice Howell (1 son of Walter Rice Howell of Haverfordwest). b. 4 April 1819; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 19 Oct. 1837; sheriff of Carmarthen 1849; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1880–5; M.P. western division of Carmarthenshire 1885 to death; master of fox hounds from 1839; purchased Osbaldeston’s Vanguard and Mayfly, a Welsh hound, the founders of his pack; owner of many steeplechase horses; established the United counties friendly benefit soc. and the Farmers’ benefit soc. at Llanboidy. d. Maesgwynne, near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 25 June 1889. Baily’s Mag. Aug. 1883 pp. 63–4 portrait; Times 27 June 1889 p. 11.

POWELL, William. b. 1814; a Welsh Calvinistic methodist; began to preach 1834, ordained 1837; minister at Pembroke, retired 1893; moderator of the general assembly; a well known preacher. d. Pembroke 12 Aug. 1894.

POWELL, William Edward (elder son of Thomas Powell of Nanteos, Cardiganshire, d. 1797). b. 16 Feb. 1788; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1804; M.P. Cardiganshire 1816–54, having never had a competitor for his seat; lord lieut. of Cardiganshire 26 Oct. 1816 to death; colonel of Cardiganshire militia 15 Dec. 1823 to death; resided Nanteos house, near Aberystwith. d. 7 Hyde park terrace, London 10 April 1854. G.M. xli 648 (1854).

POWELL, William Thomas Rowland (eld. son of the preceding). b. Swansea 4 Aug. 1815; educ. Westminster 1830; ensign 37 foot 1 June 1832, captain 6 April 1838, sold out 1 March 1839; M.P. co. Cardigan 7 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; lieut. col. royal Cardigan militia 25 March 1854, resigned 5 May 1865. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 May 1878.

POWER, Sir Alfred (6 son of John Power, M.D. of Lichfield). b. Market Bosworth 1 Feb. 1805; educ. Repton sch. 1818, and Clare hall, Camb., scholar 1822, Batty university scholar 1823, second in 1 class of classical tripos; fellow of Downing coll. 1826–36, hon. fellow 1885; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830, went midland circuit; factory commissioner 1833; assist. poor law commissioner in England 1834–43, in Ireland 1843; chief comr. of Irish poor laws 1849–73; V.P. of local government board of Ireland 1874, retired on pension of £1,333, 1 March 1879; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871, K.C.B. 27 March 1873; author of A political catechism 1853; Sanitary rhymes, personal precautions against cholera and all kinds of fever 1871. d. 35 Raglan road, Dublin 7 June 1888. New Monthly Mag. cxviii 391, 408 (1880) portrait; Law Journal lxxxvi 184 (1888); The Biograph March and April 1882 pp. 229–32; Times 12 June 1888 p. 5.

POWER, David. b. 1817; barrister L.I. and M.T. 1 May 1840; leading counsel of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Ipswich Nov. 1848, resigned June 1861; Q.C. April 1858, bencher of M.T. 1858 to death; author of The act for registration of voters 1843; The law of qualification and registration of parliamentary electors 1847; Power’s Illustrated hand-book for Gloucester 1848, 2 ed. 1862; with H. Rodwell and E. L. Dew Reports of the decisions of the house of commons in the trial of controverted elections 1853. d. Halstead Place, Kent 10 May 1862.

POWER, Ellen Maria (youngest dau. of Arthur Lingham of York house, Tulse hill, Brixton, Surrey, his wife Agnes d. 24 June 1894). b. London 10 April 1854; made her first appearance at Gordon’s music hall, Southampton 1863; under the name of Nelly Power a singer and dancer at the Canterbury, the Pavilion, and other music halls in London to 1870; gave exact imitations of George Leybourne; took the principal parts in pantomimes at the Surrey theatre under William Holland’s management; acted the Elf in Robinson Crusoe pantomime, Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1868; acted Don Roderigo in Don Carlos 16 April 1870, the earl of Essex in Elizabeth 17 Nov. 1870, prince Precious in the Orange tree and the humble bee 13 May 1871, the princess Badoura in Camaralzaman 22 Nov. 1871, Glaucus in The very last days of Pompeii 13 Feb. 1872, and Apollo in Romulus and Remus 23 Dec. 1872, all at the Vaudeville theatre; played again in pantomimes at the Surrey; Sinbad in the Old Man of the sea, Drury lane 26 Dec. 1882; again had great popularity at the music halls, very successful in caricaturing dandies, her songs Lah-di-dah and Tiddy-fol-lol had a great run; her last appearance was at the Trocadero 19 Jany. 1887; m. 17 June 1874 Roland Gideon Israel, eldest son of Bennett Barnett of Keppel st. Russell sq. London, from whom she obtained a divorce. d. 309 Essex road, Islington, London 20 Jany. 1887. bur. Abney park cemetery 26 Jany. The Era 22 Jany. 1887 p. 10, 29 Jany. p. 10; Saturday Programme 18 July 1874, with portrait, 5 Feb. 1876 pp. 8–9, two portraits.

POWER, Frank Le Poer (son of a bank manager in Dublin). Held a commission in the Austro-Hungarian army; an artist; a war correspondent on Bulgarian frontier in Russo-Turkish war 1877; leaving London 17 May 1883, went with Edmond O’Donovan to Khartoum, was in Khartoum 1 Aug. 1883 to 10 Sept. 1883 as his secretary and assistant; made sketches for the Pictorial World; joined Hicks Pasha’s army; acting consul of the foreign office at Khartoum 15 Dec. 1883; correspondent of The Times; author of Letters from Khartoum, written during the siege, 3 ed. 1885; known as The Ghazi; murdered by the Arabs at Wady Gamr, near Berber on the Nile about 27 Sept. 1884 while on his way to Dongola with lieut. col. J. D. H. Stewart, brass tablet in memory of Power and 6 other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Round about recollections i 26–33 (1892); I.L.N. 13 Dec. 1884 p. 576 portrait; Foreign office list 1885 p. 214; Times 6 Oct. 1884 p. 11 et seq.

POWER, James. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel 5 June 1835 to 23 Nov. 1841; colonel commandant R.A. 6 Dec. 1846 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Dover 17 Feb. 1851.

POWER, Sir James, 2 Baronet (only son of the succeeding). b. Johns Lane distillery, Dublin 6 Dec. 1800; educ. Rathfarnham college; called to the Irish bar at King’s inns 1849; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–47 and 1865–8; succeeded 25 June 1855; a comr. of charitable bequests in Ireland 1865 to death; sheriff for co. Wexford 1851, and for city of Dublin 1859. d. Edermine, Enniscorthy, co. Wexford 30 Sept. 1877. Irish law times xi 517 (1877).

POWER, Sir John, 1 Baronet. b. 1771; a distiller in Dublin; alderman of Dublin; created baronet 18 Oct. 1841; a supporter of D. O’Connell by his purse and influence; laid foundation stone of O’Connell monument in Glasnevin cemetery 1854. d. Roebuck house, county Dublin 25 June 1855. bur. in cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin. G.M. xliv 428 (1855).

POWER, John. b. 1820; articled to sir John Rennie, C.E. but gave up the engineering profession; published The Irish literary enquirer 1865–6, four numbers only; Bibliotheca Hibernica, Dublin 1865, a specimen sheet; List of Irish periodical publications 1866; A handy book about books 1870; resided in Panama some years; projected the Panama star and herald; resided at St. John’s Wood, London. d. St. Leonards-on-sea 13 May 1872. N. & Q. 4 s. ix 417 (1872).

POWER, John (son of William Power of Lichfield). b. Freley, Staffs. 31 July 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1828, Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1837; 8 wrangler and B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.D.; fellow and tutor of Pembroke, then master of the college Jany. 1870 to death; vice-chancellor of Camb. univ. 1870 and 1878. d. The master’s lodge, Pembroke coll. 18 Nov. 1880. bur. Cherryhinton church 24 Nov. The Guardian 24 Nov. 1880 p. 1620.

POWER, John (son of Matthias Power). b. parish of Affane, near Cappoquin, Waterford 1 May 1809; studied in St. John’s college, Waterford; ordained priest 16 June 1832; C. of St. Mary’s, Clonmel 8 June 1832; P.P. of Powerstown 2 July 1852; translated to parish of S.S. Peter and Paul, Clonmel 6 Sept. 1866; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 May 1873 to death, consecrated in Waterford cathedral 20 July 1873. d. Waterford 6 Dec. 1887. bur. in Waterford cathedral 9 Dec. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 77 (1876); The Waterford mail 8 Dec. 1887 p. 3, 12 Dec. p. 2.

POWER, Joseph (son of Mr. Power of Market Bosworth, Leics. surgeon). b. Market Bosworth 1798; pensioner at Clare coll. Camb. 21 March 1817, fellow 19 Dec. 1823 to 21 Feb. 1829, and 2 Jany. 1844, dean; fellow of Trin. hall 21 Feb. 1829 to 2 Jany. 1844, tutor and lecturer 1829–44; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; proctor of the univ. 1829; librarian of the university 1845, resigned 13 Feb. 1864; V. of Litlington, Cambs. 1856–66; R. of Birdbrook, Essex 1866 to death; contributed papers to the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical society 1825–57. d. Birdbrook rectory 7 June 1868.

POWER, Manley. Ensign 32 foot 30 Dec. 1819; lieut. 85 foot 4 Sept. 1823, placed on h.p. 30 June 1825; captain 85 foot 28 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 13 April 1852 to death; brevet colonel 20 June 1854. d. Bath 27 April 1857.

POWER, Marguerite A. (dau. of colonel Power and niece of Marguerite, countess of Blessington). b. about 1815; resided with her aunt at Gore house, Kensington to April 1849, when she went with her to Paris; edited The Keepsake 1851–7; contributed to the Irish metropolitan magazine, Forget-me-not, and Once a week; author of Evelyn Forester: a woman’s story 1856; The Foresters, 2 vols. 1858; The letters of a betrothed 1858, signed Honoria; Nelly Carew, 2 vols. 1859; Virginia’s hand, a poem 1860; Sweethearts and wives, 3 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1861; Arabian days and nights, or rays from the east 1863; edited Country quarters by the Countess of Blessington 1850, with a memoir. d. July 1867. Heath’s Book of beauty (1842) 135 portrait; Athenæum 13 July 1867 p. 54.

POWER, Mary (widow of Nicholas Power of Snowhill and aunt of the right hon. R. L. Sheil). Resided at Bath; went to London to see the Great exhibition of 1851. d. the Ursuline convent, Cork 10 March 1853 aged 116. The Constitution, Cork 17 March 1853 p. 3.

POWER, Pierse (cousin of John Power, bishop of Waterford, d. 1887). b. Powerstown, near Clonmel 1827; was for sometime in business; educ. Maynooth 1847; ordained a priest 1855; professor of logic and moral philosophy St. John’s coll. Waterford 1855, president to 1879; parish priest of Dungarvan 1879–86; coadjutor to bishop of Waterford 7 March 1886; bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 Dec. 1887 to death. d. John’s Hill, Waterford 22 May 1889. bur. in the precincts of the cathedral 24 May. The Times 23 May 1889 p. 5; Waterford chronicle 25 May 1889 p. 3.

POWER, Richard (son of Patrick W. Power of Pembroke lodge, Tramore, Waterford). b. Tramore 1851; educ. Carlow and Old Hall coll. Hertfordshire; M.P. Waterford Feb. 1874 to death, a whip to the Parnellite party; caught a cold while attending C. S. Parnell’s funeral from which he never recovered 11 Oct. 1891. d. The Grand hotel, London 29 Nov. 1891. bur. Tramore 2 Dec. Times 1 Dec. 1891 p. 9; I.L.N. 5 Dec. 1891 p. 726 portrait.

POWER, Sir William Greenshields (son of J. Power of Killydangan, co. Tipperary). b. Killydangan 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 31 May 1800, lieut. col. 12 June 1835, col. 4 May 1846 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 16 Dec. 1856 to death; served in Spain, Portugal, and France 1808–14, silver war medal with 9 clasps; general 4 Feb. 1857; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831; K.H. 1834; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Chine house, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 23 Jany. 1863.

POWIS, Edward James Herbert, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Powis 1785–1848). b. Pershore, Worcestershire 5 Nov. 1818; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., cr. LL.D. 4 July 1842; styled viscount Clive 1839–48; M.P. North Salop 1843–8; accidentally shot his father while pheasant shooting 17 Jany. 1848, when he succeeded to the peerage; cornet South Salop yeomanry 10 April 1840, lieut. col. 29 Feb. 1848; cr. D.C.L. Oxford 24 June 1857; high steward of univ. of Cambridge 26 Oct. 1863; lord lieutenant of Montgomeryshire 22 May 1877. d. 45 Berkeley sq. London 7 May 1891. bur. Welshpool, will proved at £196,988 gross. I.L.N. iv 65 (1844) portrait.

POWLETT, Barton Powlett Wallop William (1 son of William B. P. Wallop, major 15 dragoons 1781–1824). b. 6 Sept. 1808; a rider of race horses; well known in the hunting field; known as Barton Wallop, when he was supposed to be the heir to lord Portsmouth’s property; resided Northholme, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. d. Cheltenham 7 Dec. 1886. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 71 (1887).

POWLEY, Mary. b. 1812; author of Echoes of Old Cumberland, poems and translations 1875. d. Langwathby 23 Dec. 1882.

POWNALL, Assheton (3 son of James Pownall of Liverpool). b. 1823; educ. Harrow 1837, and at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; C. of Edgmond, Shropshire 1845–7; R. of South Kilworth, Leicestershire 1847 to death; rural dean of Gartree 1867; hon. canon of Peterborough 1875–85; archdeacon of Leicester 1884; proctor for the diocese of Peterborough 1871, 1874, and 1880; visited many places in the Midland counties for Soc. for propagation of gospel in foreign parts; F.S.A. 7 Dec. 1865, and made contributions to the Proceedings; member of Numismatic Soc. April 1860, and a contributor to the Chronicle from 1861. d. while on a visit at Dover 25 Nov. 1886, memorial window in Kilworth church. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xi 375 (1885–7); Numismatic Chronicle vii 1887, Proceedings 28–31.

POWNALL, John George Henry (eld. son of John Pownall, d. 1836). b. 2 Sept. 1792; a founder of Exeter hall, London 1831; a founder of the Record newspaper 1828; contested Finsbury 2 July 1834; contested Middlesex 31 July 1837; chairman of Middlesex bench of magistrates 1844 to 14 July 1870, when he was presented with a dessert service value 500 guineas; connected with numerous philanthropic and charitable societies; a knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem 8 June 1859. d. 63 Russell sq. London 8 April 1880, portrait in Clerkenwell sessions house. The Record 12 April 1880 p. 3; Law Times lxviii 442 (1880); Times 9 April 1880 p. 1.