THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XIX.] AUGUST, 1886. 
[No. 279. 
JOHN ARTHUR POWER. 
JoHn ArtTHUR PowER was born on the 18th March, 1810, at 
Market Bosworth, in Leicestershire, where his father, Dr. John 
Power, practised as a medical man; whilst his grandfather, also 
Dr. John Power, was a medical practitioner at Lichfield. He 
inherited his taste for botany and entomology from his grand- 
father, with whom he collected specimens when quite a boy. 
Dr. John, the father, having removed to London, John Arthur 
was sent to the Merchant Taylor’s School, whence he proceeded, 
with a Scholarship, to Clare Hall, Cambridge, where two of his 
uncles were already Fellows,—Joseph Power, 10th Wrangler in 
1821, afterwards Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall and University 
Librarian; and Alfred Power, 2nd Classic in 1826, afterwards 
Fellow of Downing, Vice-President of the Local Government 
Board in Ireland, and now K.C.B.; whilst a cousin, John Power, 
8th Wrangler in 1841, was afterwards Fellow and Tutor and 
ultimately Master of Pembroke. 
John Arthur Power took his B.A. degree in 1882, as 
27th Wrangler, and at the top of the third class in Classics. 
Amongst those who graduated in the same year were Dr. 
Cookson, the late Master of Peterhouse; Dr. Thompson, the 
present Master of 'I'rinity; the late Dean Alford, of Canterbury ; 
Bishop Harold Browne, of Ely and Winchester; Thomas 
Webster, of Patent-law renown; Robert Potts, the Euclidian ; 
and Richard Shilleto, the consummate Greek scholar. Though 
not so brilliant as that of his relatives, John Arthur Power's 
ENTOM.— AUGUST, 1886. 2¢ 
