473 Sir James Power

Constituency : County  Wexford  1835-47, 1865-68 

Sir  James  took  over  from Patrick  McMahon at  County  Wexford.

The  Powers  were  distillers  and  landlords. James's  father  had  been  created  a  baronet  by  Lord  Melbourne  in  1841.

Sir  James  was  an ally  of  Bright  on  franchise  extension.

In  1868  Sir  James  passed  the  seat  on  to  his  son.

The  Earl  of  Kimberley's  journal  notes  a  lunch  with  Jamers  in  1865 and  describes  him  as  "a  fussy  little  director  of  the Railway".

He  died  in  1877  aged  76.