A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Powys, Charles Edward
POWYS. (Lieutenant, 1831.)
Charles Edward Powys is second son of the Rev. Fred. Powys, by Mary, only daughter of Edw. Thoroton Gould, Esq., sister of Henry, late Lord Grey de Ruthyn, and aunt of the present Lady Grey de Ruthyn, Marchioness of Hastings. His grandfather, Thos. Powys, Esq., M.P. for Northamptonshire in 1774, was elevated to the peerage 26 Oct. 1797, as Baron Lilford, of Lilford, in that co. One of his uncles, Charles, an officer in the R.N., died 13 Aug. 1804, in his twenty-first year; and another, Henry, Captain in the 83rd Regt., died of his wounds in the attack of Picurina, before Badajoz, in April, 1812.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Sept. 1822; passed his examination in 1829; and was advanced to his present rank 31 Oct. 1831. His subsequent appointments were, for short periods – 1 Dec. 1832, to the Druid 46, Capt. Sam. Roberts, fitting for service off Lisbon – 18 June, 1833, to the Endymion 50, commanded by the same officer in the Channel – 26 Sept. 1833, to the Vestal 26, Capt. Wm. Jones, on the North America and West India station – 18 June, 1836, to the Madagascar 46, Capt. Sir John Strutt Peyton, attached to the force in the West Indies – 25 July, 1837, to the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, at Lisbon – and, 15 Nov. 1841, as First, to the Apollo troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Frederick, in the East Indies. He has been on half-pay since the close of 1842. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.