Ivan Power

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 Conservative Party Member of Parliament John Power, Ivan was educated at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford. 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 the UK, working for the Empire Parliamentary Association, and then as part of the British Delegation to the League of Nations. While there, he met Mari Stevenson, and the two married in 1935. They shared support for the Labour Party, and Ivan served as deputy agent for Mari's candidacy in Hornsey at the 1935 UK general election.[1][2]

In 1934, Power became chair of the Stepney Housing Trust, and at the 1937 London County Council election, he won a seat in Kensington North, and soon became vice-chair of the council's finance committee. However, he resigned his seat in 1940, in order to serve in the Royal Air Force during World War II.[1]

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.[1]