Admiral Sir Laurence Eliot Power, KCB, CVO (7 May 1864 – 20 January 1927) was a Royal Navy officer who played an important role in shipbuilding during the First World War.
He entered HMS Britannia in July 1877, ranked seventh out of forty-six successful candidates.
In 1912, Power was appointed Captain Superintendent of Contract-built Ships, with responsibility for contract work (excluding destroyers) on the Tyne, Thames, Mersey, at Barrow-in-Furness, and at Sunderland, with headquarters at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Power was appointed MVO in 1907, CB in 1916, promoted to CVO in 1917, and KCB in 1921.
Want, Sydney, New South Wales; they had two daughters and a son, Admiral Sir Manley Laurence Power.