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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Henry Power
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Henry Ross Power
| birth_date = 31 December 1897
| birth_place = [[Kensington]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|5|12|1897|12|31|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]], [[Surrey]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1927/28
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 179
| bat avg1 = 59.66
| 100s/50s1 = 1/–
| top score1 = 136
| deliveries1 = 60
| wickets1 = 1
| bowl avg1 = 43.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 1/40
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 25 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/henry-power-32473 Cricinfo
}}

'''Henry Ross Power''' {{postnominal|OBE|DL}} (31 December 1897 – 12 May 1963) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Indian Army]].

==Life and military career==
The son of Kingsmill Power,<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000516/19321028/081/0007|title=Bishop of Chelmsford's daughter|work=[[Essex Chronicle|Chelmsford Chronicle]]|page=7|date=28 October 1932|access-date=25 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> he was born at [[Kensington]] in December 1897. Power was educated at [[Rossall School]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rossall Register, 1844-1913|date=1913|page=385|publisher=[[Holywell Press]]|location=[[Oxford]]|language=en}}</ref> after which he went to [[British India]] to attend the [[Cadet College, Wellington|Cadet College at Wellington]], graduating from there into the [[British Indian Army]] (BIA) as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in April 1916,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29651|date=4 July 1916|page=6616}}</ref> which was nearly two years into the [[First World War]]. He was attached to the [[37th Dogras]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29735|date=5 September 1916|page=8714}}</ref> with whom promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] followed in April 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30236|date=17 August 1917|page=8462}}</ref> Following the end of the war, he was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in April 1920.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32009|date=6 August 1920|page=8184}}</ref> While serving in India, he made two appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]]. The first came for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] at [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore#Cricket ground|Lahore]] in 1927–28 [[Lahore Tournament]], with his second coming for the [[Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency|Punjab Governor's XI]] against [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]] in March 1928;<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14352/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Henry Power|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In the latter match, he scored a [[century (cricket)|century]] with a score of 136.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12592.html|title=Punjab Governor's XI v Northern India, Other First-Class matches in India 1927/28|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=25 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Power was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in the BIA in April 1934,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34053|date=25 May 1934|page=3356}}</ref> while in September of that year he was appointed to be an instructor at the [[Indian Military Academy]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34123|date=11 January 1935|page=306}}</ref> Having vacated his appointment as an instructor in August 1937,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34446|date=22 October 1937|page=6515}}</ref> Power would go onto serve in the [[Second World War]]. During the war, he was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in April 1942,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36236|date=5 November 1943|page=4870}}</ref> Following the end of the war, he promoted to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in May 1947, antedated to April 1945.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38134|date=25 November 1947|page=5637|supp=y}}</ref> He retired from active service in September 1948,<ref name="GAZ">{{London Gazette|issue=38419|date=1 October 1948|page=5244}}</ref> two years after the end of the war and just over a year after [[Indian Independence Act 1947|Indian Independence]]; the latter event resulting in his transfer to the [[General Service Corps|special list]] of the [[British Army]].<ref name="GAZ"/> After the end of his military career, he maintained a military association by being a member of the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]], with the 10th/11th Surrey Battalion. Power was made an [[Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1956 Birthday Honours]] and was later appointed a [[deputy lieutenant]] for [[Surrey]] in September 1959.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40787|date=25 May 1956|page=3105|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=41833|date=2 October 1959|page=6191}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Cadet Forces Medal]] in September 1961,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42475|date=26 September 1961|page=7053|supp=y}}</ref> having resigned his commission in the TA in the same month.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42520|date=21 November 1961|page=8517|supp=y}}</ref>

Power died in May 1963 at [[Cobham, Surrey]]. He was married to Josephine Lesley St. John Wilson, the daughter of [[Henry Wilson (bishop)|Henry Wilson]], who was the [[Bishop of Chelmsford]] from 1929 to 1950.<ref name="NEWS"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=32473}}

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[[Category:1897 births]]
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[[Category:Cricketers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]]
[[Category:People from Kensington]]
[[Category:Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]]
[[Category:People educated at Rossall School]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Deputy lieutenants of Surrey]]
[[Category:British sportspeople in British India]]

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