Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, GRIFFITH (1561 - 1620), principal of Jesus College, Oxford Born 1561, son of John ap Hywel, Llansawel, Carmarthenshire. He matriculated at Jesus College in 1581, and graduated M.A. in 1589; he proceeded to the degree of D.C.L. in 1599. Powell was elected a Fellow of the college in 1589, and he became principal in 1613. His published work comprises two volumes on Aristotelian philosophy, which appeared in 1594 and 1598. As a Fellow of the college, Powell
POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister Congregational Board proves that he was a man with a special aptitude for the ministry; grants of £5 a year were made to him by the Board in 1697, 1699, 1702, 1703, and 1704. He returned to Brecknock in 1700 and was ordained as minister of Beiliheulog church, which became the spiritual centre of the district. In 1709 he published Y Gwrandawr, a translation of a work by Dr. John Edwards, Oxford; in 1711 he
POWELL, HOWELL (1819 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister in the U.S.A., and author Twrch (John Edwards) as co-editor, he published, 1871, Llyfr Hymnau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd; he also published, 1873, Cofiant … William Rowlands, D.D., Utica, Efrog Newydd. He died 23 March 1875. A biography of him, by Thomas Levi, was published in New York.
POWELL, Sir JOHN (1633 - 1696), lawyer and judge Born in 1633, son of John Powell of Pentre Meurig, Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire. He was educated, as a boy, by Jeremy Taylor; he was probably the John Powell who matriculated as of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1650; B.A. 1653; M.A. 1654. Admitted to Grays Inn in 1650; he was recorder of Brecon, 1683-90; Puisne Justice of Brecknock, 1685-6; knighted and appointed Judge of the Common Pleas, 1686; removed
POWELL, JOHN Three men of this name are connected with religious movements in North Monmouthshire in the first half of the 18th century; as there is a tendency to confound them it seems better to discuss them together: (1) JOHN POWELL (1708 - 1795), Methodist cleric Religion, a Brecknock man, priested at Hereford 20 December 1735 on a title given by the rector of Llanwenarth. He was curate of Aberystruth
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army Pembroke. Powell joined John Poyer and Rowland Laugharne and took part with them in the defence of Pembroke and the offensive actions in the county and beyond. Laugharne appointed him governor of Cardigan castle when it was captured on 29 December 1644 and he successfully defended it in the following month against a Royalist assault directed by Sir Charles Gerard. In April 1646 he became governor of
POWELL, RICHARD (1769 - 1795), poet and schoolmaster called Difrifol Ystyriaeth, published by John Daniel (Carmarthen, 1789). He was known also as a grammarian. He died in October 1795 while crossing the mountains from Ffestiniog to Ysbyty Ifan.
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, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner Born 6 January 1779 (says Bradney) at Monmouth, son of John Powell. He began as a timber merchant at Newport, but afterwards extended his activities to the coal trade. His first venture in coal-mining was the purchase of a small colliery between Llanhilleth and Aberbeeg. In 1829 he sank two shafts at Gelligaer, proving a vein of coal nearly six feet thick. In 1833 Powell applied to Sir Charles
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 EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal Eifion Powell was born 7 November 1934, at 34 Church Street, in the coal mining village of Cwmgors, Glamorganshire. Evan John (Jack), his father, a quiet unassuming coal miner, was the financial secretary of the Tabernacl, the Welsh Congregational Church, Cwmgors. Two sons, Eifion and Huw, were born to him and his wife, Eleanor, a person who possessed a good measure of humour and wit. Later, the
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

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