Captain Anthony Traherne
(1834-1910)
January 1863

Volume 10, page 24, sitting number 12,465

[The Silvy daybooks identify the sitter only as ‘Captain Traherne’ but according to Hart’s Army List (1865) there was only one officer with the surname Traherne in the Army at that time.]

Born at Bettws in Monmouthshire in 1834, Anthony Powell Traherne was the son of Morgan Popkin Traherne and his wife Elizabeth Margaret née Rickards. He was baptised at Bettws on 30 April 1834. 

When the census was taken in 1851 he was a 17-year-old pupil at Sherborne School in Dorset. 

On 17 February 1865 at East Peckham Church, ‘Anthony Powell Traherne, late Capt. H.M.’s 17th Regt., of Broadlands, Glamorganshire [married] Lucy Lockwood Onslow, only daughter of the late Thomas Onslow, Esq., of Clifton’ (Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 17 February 1865). 

He died on 2 September 1910 at Bath in Somerset. According to the Index of Wills and Administrations, his usual address was ‘Inglethorpe, Manor-road, Bournemouth.’

‘Major Anthony Powell Traherne, formerly of the 17th Leicestershire Regiment, died on the 2nd inst., at Bath, aged 76. He was the son of the late Mr. M.P. Traherne, of Coytrehen, and obtained his commission as Ensign in the 17th Regiment July 29, 1853, becoming Lieutenant June 6, 1854. He served during the Crimean Campaign, and was present at the siege of Sebastopol from January, 1855, including the assaults on the Redan on June 18 and Sept. 8, being dangerously wounded (medal with clasp, and Knight of the Legion of Honour). He was promoted to Captain Dec. 4, 1857, and retiring from the Army in 1862 was appointed Adjutant of the 1st Administrative Batn. Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers Aug. 12, 1863. He was granted the honorary rank of Major Sept. 29, 1879, and retired Nov. 21, 1879. Major Traherne was a J.P. for Hants and Glamorgan’ (Army and Navy Gazette, 10 September 1910).