Modern English biography

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