Obituary : Henry Power, M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng., late Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and consulting ophthalmic surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital.

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1911
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Credit: Obituary : Henry Power, M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S. Eng., late Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and consulting ophthalmic surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hurricane which devastated the island on the morning of August 11th, 1831, when the barracks were blown down, killing the sergeant-major, a sergeant, and five privates. Major Power resigned his commission in 1833, and for many years spent the wandering life which was then usual with half-pay officers who had no private means. His son, therefore, was educated for short periods at schools in Gloucester, Liverpool, Cheltenham, Leamington, and Whitby, never remaining long enough at any place to receive a thorough grounding in classics and mathe- matics. His name appears in the lists of Cheltenham College as a day boy admitted at Easter, 1842, the college having been opened in the previous autumn. Having decided to adopt the profession of medicine, he was apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Lowe Wheeler in 1844, who was afterwards chairman of the Board of Examiners at the Apothecaries’ Hall. Mr. Wheeler was the son of Thomas Wheeler (1754-1847), the botanist, who was apothecary to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The apprentice lived with his master in Newcastle-court, Gracechurch-street, E.C., entered St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was diligent in attending the early morning botanical lectures and the herborisings which were then a feature of the medical curriculum. The result of this botanical training enabled Mr. Power to win the Galen silver medal and the Linnrean silver medal given annually by the Society of Apothecaries, and in 1851 he was admitted a Licentiate of this body. In the same year he took the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and on Dec. 1st, 1854, he was elected F.R.O.S. Eng. At the same time he was graduating in medicine at the University of London where he had a brilliant career. He took the prize in chemistry at the matriculation examination, the exhibition and gold medal in anatomy and physiology, and the gold medal in structural and physiological botany at the intermediate examination in medicine in 1852, the scholarship and gold medal in physiology and comparative anatomy, and the scholarship and gold medal in surgery at the Final M.B. examination, graduating M.B. in 1855. Four years before,
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