14 Facts About D'Arcy Power

D'Arcy Power was born on 11 November 1855 at 3 Grosvenor Terrace, Pimlico, in London, to Henry Power, himself a surgeon.

D'Arcy Power was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and entered New College, Oxford, before transferring to Exeter College.

D'Arcy Power gave the Bradshaw Lecture for 1918, the Vicary lecture for 1920, and delivered the Hunterian oration in 1925.

D'Arcy Power was variously the Mitchell Banks Memorial Lecturer in 1933; a member of the executive committee of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund; President of the Medical Society of London; President of the Harveian Society of London and President of the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1926 to 1928.

D'Arcy Power both taught and examined in medicine and wrote textbooks and articles for a number of medical journals.

D'Arcy Power was mobilised with the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, and promoted lieutenant-colonel on 22 August.

Until 1916 he was based at the officers' hospital at Fishmongers' Hall, and then rejoined the main body of 1st London General Hospital, serving until demobilisation in 1920, D'Arcy Power was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his service in military hospitals during the First World War in the 1919 King's Birthday Honours.

D'Arcy Power retired from the army on 30 September 1921.

D'Arcy Power married Eleanor Fosbroke, daughter of the surgeon George Haynes Fosbroke, in 1883; she predeceased him in 1923.

The older son, called D'Arcy Power, followed his father into part-time service in the RAMC in 1911, and during the First World War became a captain and won the Military Cross.

The younger son, George Henry Fosbroke D'Arcy Power, died at the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 when he was serving as a lieutenant in 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment.

D'Arcy Power, who was presented on his 75th birthday with a bibliography listing 609 of his "selected writings" by a special committee of the Osler Club, was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and President of the Bibliographical Society from 1926 to 1928.

D'Arcy Power was a member of the London Survey Committee, a voluntary organisation publishing architectural surveys of the capital.

D'Arcy Power was in 1903 a founding member of the Samuel Pepys Club.