Maurice Power was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as member of parliament for County Cork and as Lieutenant Governor of St Lucia from 1852.
14 Facts About Maurice Power
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Maurice Power was born in Deelish, Skibbereen, County Cork, the fourth son of Andrew Power.
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Maurice Power was educated at Stonyhurst College and subsequently qualified as a doctor.
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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.
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Maurice Power was the priest who married Maurice Power and Catherine Louise Livingston in 1832.
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Maurice Power's other brother, William, was a doctor who worked in the Irish community.
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Maurice Power 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.
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Maurice Power was reappointed in 1846 and became a magistrate in Cove.
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Maurice Power was selected to stand as the Repeal Party candidate, winning the election and holding the seat until 1852.
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In 1852, Maurice Power was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor for St Lucia.
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Maurice Power retired from his posting in St Lucia in 1855, moving to Freiburg in Prussia on health grounds.
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Maurice Power returned to Cork in the early 1860s, purchasing Ringacoltig House and Estate, resuming interest in local politics.
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Maurice Power travelled to America where he married Catherine Livingston in 1832; she was the youngest daughter of Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston, an American Justice of the Supreme Court, and Catherine Kortright.
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Catherine Maurice Power's brothers were Henry Brockholst Livingston and Jasper Hall Livingston, who was her twin.