Arts, Boston, Springfield Library, New York Public Library, and Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg. Res.: 121 West Carrillo St., Santa Barbara, Calif., U.S.A.
POWER, Sir George, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1836); seventh son of Sir John, 2nd Bart., and Frances Elizabeth, only dau. of William Blaney Wade; b. 1846; s. his brother, 5 Mar., 1903; m. 2 Sept., 1915, Eva, dau. of Sir Samuel Boulton, Bart. Res.: 31 Addison Road, London, W.14.
POWER Lady Gertrude Frances, only child of Thomas Hayes, of Grenville House, Cork; m. 1877, Sir James Talbot Power, 5th Bart, (d, 1916); she m. 2nd, 1916, B. Dunning.
POWER, Lady Frances Emma, dau. of late Capt. Henry Segrave, D.L., J.P. of Kittymon, Co. Wicklow; m. 1st, 1876, Sir John Talbot Power, 3rd Bart., who died in 1901; she m. 2nd, Anthony Loftus Cliffe. Res.: Bellevue, Wexford.
POWER, Hubert. Was High Sheriff of Co. Waterford, 1888. Son of late P. J. M. Power and Lady Olivia Jane Nugent, dau. of 9th Earl of Westmeath; b. 1860; m. 1888, Marie Therese Aimée, dau. of M. Alexis Charles Toussaint Bourges. Res. Faithlegg House, Waterford.
POWER, John Joseph O'Neill, J.P. Cos. Kilkenny and Waterford; Master Snowhill Foxhounds, 1900-03; late Capt. Waterford Royal Artillery. Educ.: Beaumont College, Old Windsor. Recns. hunting, motoring, polo. Eldest and only surviving son of late Joseph O'Neill Power and Elizabeth Antonia, dau. of late Sir John Ennis, Bart.; b. 1879. Res.: Power Hall, Snowhill, Waterford. Clubs: Bath, Royal Automobile, London; Kildare Street, Dublin.
POWER, Rev. Patrick, M.R.I.A. Educ.: at St. John's College, Waterford; Lecturer in Celtic Archæology at Maynooth 1910; Professor of Archaeology at Univ. College, Cork, from 1915. Editor of Waterford and S.E. of Ireland Archæological Journal since 1899; (18 vols.); contributor to archaeological and other publications; author of The History of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, 1912; Place Names of Decies, 1907; Lives of Saints Declan and Carthage, 1915; Place Names and Antiquities of S.E. Cork, 1917: Manual of Religious Instruction (25 Editions), and other works historical and archaeological; b. at Callaghane, near Waterford, 8 Mar., 1862. Address: University College, Cork.
POWER, Sir Samuel Murray, K.C.B. (1922), C.B. (1918). Junior Clerk in Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, 1879; 1st Class Clerk, 1892; Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council in Ireland, 1908; Chief Clerk, Irish Office, 1909-22; Private Secretary to Lord Wimborne, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1915; to F.M. Viscount French, 1918; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod of the Order of St. Patrick, 1918. Son of the late Capt. John William Power, Affane, Tramore, Co. Waterford; b. 29 Sept., 1863; m. 1888, Aida Georgina Grace, dau. of Capt. Arthur Nassau Bolton, of Bective, Co. Meath. Res.: Belleville House, Co. Dublin; Clubs: Arthur's, Royal Automobile, London.
POWER, Sir Thomas Talbot, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1841); D.L. Dublin City; third son of Sir James, 2nd Bart., and Jane Anna Eliza, dau. and co-heir of John Hyacinth Talbot, J.P., D.L., M.P. of Castle Talbot, Co. Wexford; b. 3 May, 1863; s. his brother, as 6th Bart., 3 July, 1916; m. 6 May, 1884, Margaret, dau. of late Thomas Martin, of Beaufield House, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin. Res.: Thornhill, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.
POWERSCOURT, Viscount, and Baron Wingfield (Irld., 1743): Baron Powerscourt (Unit. Kgd., 1885)—Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount, K.P. (1916), M.V.O. (1902); Captain, Special Reserve Irish Guards; Assistant Provost Marshal, 1916; served in Gallipoli, France, and Belgium, 1915, 1917-18; J.P. Co. Dublin, and His Majesty's Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, Co. Wicklow (1910): Comptroller of the Household to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1906-07; elder son of Mervyn, 7th Viscount, and Lady Julia Coke (Dowager Viscountess Powerscourt), eldest dau. of the 2nd Earl of Leicester; b. 16 July, 1880; s. his father, as 8th Viscount, 5 June, 1904; m. 9 June, 1903, Sybil, second dau. of late Walter Pleydell-Bouverie, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Powerscourt Castle, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow.
PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd, B.A. and B.E. Royal University of Ireland; First Assistant Librarian, National Library of Ireland, since 1896. Educ.: Royal Academical Institution, Belfast; Queen's College, Belfast. Graduated 1886; engaged in harbour and water engineering works, and harbour defence works, 1886-92; appointed to National Library, 1893; Member of Council, Librarian and Editor of Royal Irish Academy, 1902-3; much interested in Naturalists' Field Club Work; Secretary of Irish Field Club Union since its formation, 1895. Pubns.: Open-Air Studies in Botany, 1897: Irish Topographical Botany, 1901: Tourist's Flora of the West of Ireland, 1909; Weeds (Cambridge Nature Study Series), 1913; numerous papers on Irish Botany and Geology, chiefly in Irish Naturalist, Journal of Botany, Proceedings Royal Irish Academy, and Proceedings Belfast Naturalists' Field
