Spouse(s) Anne Gilbert Role Actor Children Harold Littledale Power | Name Tyrone Power Died March 17, 1841 | |
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Full Name William Grattan Tyrone Power Parents Tyron Power, Maria Maxwell Books Impressions of America, Impressions of America During th, Impressions of America During Th, Impressions of America During th | ||
William Grattan Tyrone Power (1795 – 17 March 1841), known professionally as Tyrone Power, was an Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager. He was an ancestor of actor Tyrone Power and is also referred to as Tyrone Power I.
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Life and career
Born in Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland, to a landed family, the son of Maria Maxwell and Tyrone Power, he took to the stage achieving prominence throughout the world as an actor and manager.
He was well known for acting in such Irish-themed plays as Catherine Gore's King O'Neil (1835), his own St. Patrick's Eve (1837), Samuel Lover's Rory O'More (1837) and The White Horse of the Peppers (1838), Anna Marie Hall's The Groves of Blarney (1838), Eugene Macarthy's Charles O'Malley (1838), and Bayle Bernard's His Last Legs (1839) and The Irish Attorney (1840). In his discussion of these works, Richard Allen Cave has argued that Power, both in his acting as well as his choice of plays, sought to rehabilitate the Irishman from the derogatory associations with "stage Irishmen" ("Staging the Irishman" in Acts of Supremacy [1991]).
He had a number of notable descendants by his wife Anne, daughter of John Gilbert Esq. of the Isle of Wight: Anne Power is buried in the churchyard of St Mary The Virgin Church in High Halden, Kent UK.
Tyrone Power was lost at sea in March 1841, when the SS President disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic.