Henry Herbert Powis
- Born: 1852, Dorking, Surrey
- Marriage (1): Eleanor Monk on 1 Aug 1877 in St Stephen's, Streatham, London
- Died: Q3 1887, Newton Abbot, Devon aged 35
 Notes:
1861 Census (age 9) living East St (?), Dorking with parents, 4 siblings, grandmother and 2 servants.
1871 Census (age 19) living in Knowl Hill, Wargrave, Berks with parents and some siblings. Occupation column is null
London Gazette 18th Oct 1872; 98th Foot, Henry Herbert Powis, Gent, to be Sub-Lieutenant, in succession to Lt. G.B.Havelock, transferred to the 101st Foot. Dated 19th October 1872.
London Gazette 22nd Jan 1875; 98th Foot, Sub-Lt Henry Herbert Powis to be Lieutenant. Dated 19th October 1872 (?!?!? - this is same date as above, but def. says 1872!).
1947 Letter Cyril Griffiths -> Ann G-P "He was in the army and died young in Malta I believe. I remember seeing his widow and child named Millicent at Grandmother's house in Putney"
From Wendy; The Standard 3 August 1877; Marriages: POWIS - MONK Aug 1 at St Stephen's Streatham, Henry Herbert, Lieutenant 98th Price of Wales Regiment, 2nd surviving son of Charles Horlick Powis of Roehampton Park to Eleanor Powis (Nellie) elder daughter of R P Monk & Mrs Monk of Penshurst Lodge Balham.
Also; Rugby School Register (transcription) ; Monks Richard Fowls (stet) son of Richard POWIS Monk of Penshurst Lodge, Balham Hill - left 1876 - gazetted to 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers October 1880 Captain 1st Battalion March 1890 Reserve of Officers.
This would perhaps imply that Eleanor was a cousin of some sort ? Which is why I have entered info here on her father.
London Gazette 23rd Jan 1880; 98th Foot, Lieutenant Henry Herbert Powis to be Captain, vice E.Haughton, retired on a pension. Dated 7th January 1880.
1881 Census (age 29) living with wife and child in Penshurst Lodge, Streatham, London in house of mother-in-law. Occupation; Captain <something>
Free ancestry death search = Henry Herbert Powis, no YoB given, but presumably is him.
1891 Census; wife is widow, so he's died.
Henry married Eleanor Monk, daughter of Richard Powis Monk and Mary Anne Eagle, on 1 Aug 1877 in St Stephen's, Streatham, London. (Eleanor Monk was born in 1858 in Mitcham, Surrey.)
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