William Grattan (Tyrone) Power 1797 - 1841
William Grattan (Tyrone) Power , popular actor and comedian. When a child, he was taken to live in Wales. Irish comedian. Joined strolling players at age of 14; succeeded (1826) Charles Connor as leading Irish comedian at Drury Lane; went down in President, lost in storm en route from America. Issue - 4 sons and 3 daus. Encyclopaedia Britannica Tyrone Power I was probably as famous in his day as his great-grandson was in the 20th century. He appeared on the Dublin and London stage and made four tours of America. It was when he was returning from the last one aboard the steamship President in 1841 that the ship was lost in a great storm and all aboard perished, with nothing ever found. Besides being an actor, Tyrone Power I was a speculator and bought land in America, including the plot in New York where Madison Square Gardens now stands (he had sold it before leaving on his ill-fated journey). --------------- POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841), Irish actor, was born near Kilmacthomas on the 2nd of November 1797. At the age of fourteen he joined a company of strolling players, eventually getting small parts in the London theatres. On the sudden death of Charles Connor he was given his parts and was immediately recognized as the best stage Irishman of his generation, becoming a popular favorite in London, Dublin and America. He was on board the ill-fated President when she foundered at sea in March 1841. Power wrote and performed several Irish plays, and published three novels and his Impressions of America (1836). He had married when twenty and left a widow and seven children, the oldest of whom, Sir William Tyrone Power, K.C.B. (b. 1819), became Commissary-general of the British army and was knighted in 1865.
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