Powis Pinder

From March to November 1896 he appeared with a D'Oyly Carte touring company as the Herald in The Grand Duke and in the larger role of Mr. Goldbury in Utopia, Limited.

[3] Pinder rejoined a D'Oyly Carte touring company from April 1897 to December 1898 in Gilbert and Sullivan repertory as Counsel for the Plaintiff in Trial by Jury, Colonel Calverley in Patience, Strephon and Mountararat in Iolanthe, Arac in Princess Ida, the title role in The Mikado, First Yeoman and the Lieutenant of the Tower in The Yeomen of the Guard, Antonio, Luiz and Giuseppe in The Gondoliers, Captain Corcoran in Utopia, Limited[4] and Count Cosmo in His Majesty.

In April 1902 he created the small role of the Butcher in Merrie England, while in December 1902 he appeared in a benefit performance of Cox and Box opposite Richard Temple in aid of William Rignold.

[3] In 1905 Pinder toured in The Golden Girl opposite Louie Pounds[8] and was in the Seymour Hicks musical The Talk of the Town at the Lyric (1905); he appeared in the chorus of a benefit matinee performance of Trial by Jury for Ellen Terry at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1906.

[3][10] In 1915 He performed in the one-act comedy Jerry and the Sunbeam at the Town Hall in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight in a benefit for the St John Ambulance Association.

[14] Shortly after the outbreak of the war Pinder joined the local Auxiliary Fire Service as a volunteer, aged 67, eventually being promoted to Leading Fireman.

His fire brigade funeral was held at the church of St Blasius and was attended by friends from his London theatre days in addition to local people and dignitaries.