Author: Power, Robert
Biography:
POWER, Robert (1790-1851: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 18 May 1790 and baptised on 16 Aug. at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, the son of John Power MD (1759-1848), physician, author of A Treatise on Midwifery (1819), and his wife Mary Knowles (1758-1841), who had married in 1783. They went on to have at least seven children. Robert Power qualified as MD through apprenticeship and went to practise in Atherstone, Warwickshire, along with his father and accompanied by his two unmarried sisters Catherine (1793-1872) and Sarah Eliza (1797-1874). The family lived at Mancetter Cottage, South Street, Atherstone. He wrote the Preface to Miscellaneous Poems (1824) from Atherstone on 16 Aug. 1824. He never married and on retirement lived with his unmarried sisters, to whom he left most of his estate. He died on 19 Apr., 1851 at Atherstone and was buried on 25 Apr. His sisters continued to live at the cottage and were classified as gentry in the Post Office Directory (1854). (ancestry.co.uk 22 Jun. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 Jun. 2022; Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica [1910], 100; London and Provincial Medical Directory [1850], 403; GM June 1851, 685; Weekly Chronicle 17 Jan. 1841; Worcestershire Chronicle 12 Jan. 1848) AA