Ivan McLannahan Cecil Power (29 November 1903 – 13 February 1954) was a British diplomat and politician, who served on London County Council. The son of the Conservative Member of Parliament

Sir John Power, 1st Baronet Sir John Cecil Power, 1st Baronet, (21 December 1870 – 5 June 1950) was a British export merchant, developer and Conservative politician at national level for 21 years then choosing not to seek re-election at the age of 74. Working life and leg ...

, Power was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and

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. He joined the diplomatic service, working in Berlin, then in Australia, including a period as secretary to the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. He then returned to Britain. On 1 June 1927, Power married Nancy Hilary Griffiths, and they had two children, John Patrick McLannahan Power (1928–1984) the third baronet, and Hilary Diana Cecil Power (born 1930). In England, Power worked for the

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, and in 1934 became chairman of the Stepney Housing Trust. He was also appointed as a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations, where he met Mari Stevenson. In 1935 he divorced his wife and married Stevenson the same year. Both supported the Labour Party, and Power served as deputy agent when his wife stood for Labour in Hornsey at the

1935 United Kingdom general election The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935 and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party. The greatest number of members, ...

in November. In June 1936, the new Mrs Power died, aged only 23, following a short illness. At the

1937 London County Council election An election to the County Council of London took place on 4 March 1937. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party made gains, increasing their majority over the ...

, Power won a seat in

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, and soon became vice-chairman of the council's finance committee. However, he resigned his seat in 1940, in order to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. After the war, Power served as a director of various companies holding land in Africa. He succeeded his father as a baronet in 1950 and died in Johannesburg four years later. In 1957, his daughter Hilary Diana Cecil Power married Malcolm Erskine, who in 1984 succeeded as 17th. Earl of Buchan.Peter W. Hammond, ed., ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times'', Vol. XIV (Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 121

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Power, Ivan 1903 births 1954 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of New College, Oxford British diplomats Labour Party (UK) councillors Members of London County Council Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom