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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 224 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POWER [See also:WILLIAM See also:GRATTAN] See also:TYRONE (1797-1841) , Irish actor, was See also:born near Kilmacthomas on the and of See also:November 1797. At the See also:age of fourteen he joined a See also:company of strolling players, eventually getting small parts in the See also:London theatres. On the sudden See also:death of See also:Charles See also:Connor he was given his parts and was immediately recognized as the best See also:stage Irishman of his See also:generation, becoming a popular favourite in London, See also:Dublin and See also:America. He was on See also:board the See also:ill-fated " See also:President " when she foundered at See also:sea in See also:March 1841. Power wrote and performed several Irish plays, and published three novels and tools, textile machinery, pumping machinery, See also:cranes—in fact his Impressions of America (1836). He had married when every See also:kind of See also:machine which requires any considerable quantity twenty and See also:left a widow and seven See also:children, the See also:oldest of whom, See also:Sir William Tyrone Power, K.C.E. (b. 1819), became See also:Commissary-See also:general of the See also:British See also:army and was knighted in 1865.

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