Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, brother, had died in Africa; see Peniarth MS 156). William Powell went from Hereford School to S. John's College, Oxford, 14 January 1722/3, aged 17 (matriculated 1723, B.A. 1726/7, M.A. 1730). He was ordained deacon (diocese of Lincoln) 19 September 1731 and became curate of Elton, Huntingdonshire. He was created doctor of civil law, 8 July 1763, being then of Nanteos, Cardiganshire (Scott-Mayor, iii
POWELL, ANNIE (1906 - 1986), teacher, local politician and Communist mayor of Rhondda Annie Powell was born on 8 September 1906 in Ystrad, Rhondda, Glamorgan, the eldest of four daughters of Tom and Sarah Thomas, both teachers. The family was Welsh-speaking and life centred around the Welsh Independent chapel and later Methodist Central Hall, Tonypandy. Annie was educated at Pentre Grammar School and Glamorgan Training College, and followed her parents into teaching. In her early
POWELL, JOHN Charles (D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, I, 71; see also a note by him in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Trevecka Supplement 8, 273). (2) JOHN POWELL (1720 - 1766), Independent minister Religion; Born at Lanelli (Brecknock). A shoemaker in Glyn Ebwy Fawr, he was converted by Edmund Jones (Hist. of Aberystruth, 106), and began to preach. After a while (1748) he went to Carmarthen
POWELL, Sir JOHN (1633 - 1696), lawyer and judge , was attorney-general of the Carmarthen circuit, 1695-1715, Member of Parliament for Monmouth, 1705-8, and for Carmarthenshire, 1710-15. He was created a baronet in 1698, but the title became extinct on the death of his son HERBERT in 1721.
POWELL, PHILIP (1594 - 1646), O.S.B. Born at Trallwng (Trallwng Cynfyn), Brecknockshire, 2 February 1594, the son of Roger ap Rosser Powell and Catherine Morgan. He was sent to Abergavenny grammar school where the headmaster, Morgan Lewis, father of Fr. David Lewis, S.J., recommended him to Dom David Augustine Baker, O.S.B. saying: ' O, Saint o vaighgen y'e, ' The latter supervised his law studies from 1610 to 1614, and then sent
POWELL, RAYMOND (1928 - 2001), Labour politician and one daughter. Their daughter Janice Gregory became the Assembly Member for Ogmore. They lived at 8 Brynteg Gardens, Bridgend. Ray Powell was knighted in 1996, a rare distinction, and possibly awarded as compensation for the loss of his post as party whip. He died at London on 7 December 2001.
POWELL, THOMAS (1608? - 1660), cleric Born in the parish of Cantref, Brecknock, son of John Powell, rector of Cantref, 1601-26. According to Wood he was born in 1608 but, according to Foster, he was 18 years of age on 25 January 1627/8. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1629, M.A. 1632, D.D. 1660). He obtained the living of Cantref, 4 May 1635 - his eldest brother, Hugh Powell, being the patron. In 1650, under the
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine became the wife of John Evans (1628 - 1700). Powell had no children. His published works were: 1, The Scriptures Concord (London, 1646); 2, God the Father Glorified (London, 1649); 3, Christ and Moses Excellency (London, 1650); 4, Saving Faith (London, 1651); 5, Christ Exalted, 1651 (printed with no. 4); 6, Three Hymnes [sic] (London, 1650); 7, Common-Prayer-Book No Divine Service (London, 1660); 8
POWELL, WILLIAM (Gwilym Pennant; 1830 - 1902), poet his many successes were silver medals at the national eisteddfod, Llandudno, 1864, the Swansea eisteddfod, 1863, and at the Llangefni eisteddfod. He was fifth for the chair at the Merthyr eisteddfod, 1888. He married (1), Mary Theodore, Llanfair Caereinion, by whom he had five children, and (2), 1895, a Miss Jones of Westminster. He died 16 July 1902, and was buried in London.
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal was the editor of Cristion, Y Cofiadur and Diwinyddiaeth. At the request of the Welsh Hymn Society, he delivered the annual lecture at the 1977 Wrexham National Eisteddfod, on 'The Hymn Writers of the Maelor District', published in Society's Bulletin (vol. 2:1) in 1978. At the 1990 Annual Meetings of the Union of Welsh Independents, held at the Preseli District, he delivered the Dyfnallt Lecture on
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher ). From his mother, Mary Cowper-Johnson, he derived the more literary blood of the poets John Donne and William Cowper. Born 8 October 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father's first parish, but in 1879 the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset, then, in 1885, to Montacute vicarage, Somerset. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and in 1894 drifted into the post of
POYER, JOHN (d. 1649) Pembroke, mayor of the combined ex-Parliamentary and Royalist forces at St. Fagans (8 May 1648) a remnant escaped to Pembroke where the siege was conducted by Oliver Cromwell. It did not surrender until 11 July, when the garrison was greatly reduced and there was no prospect of help from the Royalists. Poyer, together with Rowland Laugharne and Rice Powell, was condemned to death; but lots were drawn as to which

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