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Maurice Power (1811-1870) was member of parliament for County Cork (1847-1852) and served as Lieutenant Governor for St Lucia from 1852. He was born in Deelish, Skibbereen, County Cork, the fourth son of Andrew Power. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and subsequently qualified as a doctor. He travelled to America where he married Catherine Livingston in 1832; she was the youngest daughter of Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston and Catherine (Seaman) Kortright. Power returned to Ireland and became involved with local politics, supporting the Repeal Party. He was appointed a member of the Clonakilty bench of magistrates, but resigned in 1843 when a fellow magistrate was dismissed by the Lord Chancellor for attending a political meeting.〔Magistracy - more resignations and dismissals; Cork Examiner - Friday 02 June 1843 – page 4.〕 He was reappointed in 1846 and became a magistrate in Cove.〔Exchange of letters between Maurice Power and Francis William Brady, Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, Dublin; Cork Examiner page 2- Monday 12 October 1846 –〕 In 1847, Daniel O'Connell, the member of parliament for County Cork died. Maurice Power was selected to stand as the Repeal Party candidate, winning the election and holding the seat until 1852. In 1852 Power was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor for St Lucia. This was received with incredulity amongst those who had supported his election campaign. They believed that he had pledged not to take a government appointment, and that he was now being rewarded for supporting the ruling Whig party, in particular Lord Clarendon〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1852/feb/19/the-irish-government-and-the-world#S3V0119P0_18520219_HOC_17 )〕 during the Birch affair.〔Cork Examiner page 2- Monday 04 March 1867〕〔Political history of the late Mr Sadlier; Norfolk Chronicle page 4 - Saturday 08 March 1856;〕 Power retired from his posting in St Lucia in 1855, moving to Freiburg in Prussia on health grounds. He returned to Cork in the early 1860s, purchasing Ringacoltig House and Estate, resuming interest in local politics. He died there on 28 December 1870, buried locally, although his remains were exhumed in the following year, and re-buried in the family plot in Rosscarbery. ==Family== Two of Maurice Power’s brothers were prominent members of the Irish-American community in New York: John Power was the Roman Catholic Pastor of St Peter's Lower Manhattan from 1819 to 1849 and Vicar General of the diocese of New York. He was the priest who married Maurice Power and Catherine Louise Livingston in 1832. His other brother, William, was a doctor who worked in the Irish community. Power’s sister, Anne, also lived in New York and was the wife of property developer Thomas E. Davis. Maurice Power’s son, Brockholst Livingston Power, was a lieutenant in the Prussian army before joining the Federal army as a captain in the Corning Light Cavalry during the American Civil War.〔Death of Mr B Power, Queenstown; Freeman's Journal page 4- Friday 12 June 1891〕 Another son, John Livingston Power, was a surgeon in the British Army and fought as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_q=john+livingston+power )〕 He died of cancer at Manheim, Germany, 25 Jan 1877 and was accorded a military funeral by the German officers of that garrison. Three of Powers daughters married Prussians and lived in that country;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Descendents of Katherine Seaman )〕 a forth daughter (Alice) married her cousin Edwin Brockholst Livingston. Catherine Power's brothers were Henry Brockholst Livingston (1819-1892) and Jasper Hall Livingston (1815-1900) - who was her twin. He married Matilda Anne Cecila Morris, the youngest daughter of Sir John Morris, 2nd Baronet of Clasemont and died in England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rshg.org.uk/grave_record.asp?graveid=7731 )〕 Henry married Marian Magdalen Gribaldo in Florence, Italy and is buried in the Swiss Protestant Cemetery of Florence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.florin.ms/americantombs.html )〕 Catherine Power - who was a twin - gave birth to twins in 1850. They were Alice Mary, who married Edwin Brockholst Livingston and Lucinda Frances, who married Wilhelm Ludwig Ernst Leopold Emil, Freiherr Böcklin von Böcklinsau. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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