POWELL, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1565-9 (tutor, Prebendary Young).
POWEL, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1725.
POVEY, RICHARD; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS 1642, still 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114).
POUNTE, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 12 Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter, i, 278).
POUNTE, ANDREW, eldest son of John Pounte, Godmanchester, Hunts., and London, citizen and merchant taylor, and Elizabeth Disney; b.; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1562/3-5; a pensioner 1565-9 (tutor, the Head Master) (Chapter Muniments 54006-18); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, matr. as pens. 1569, scholar 1570; BA 1572/3; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 May 1567.
Poulter, Richard Charles McCrea, son of Brownlow Poulter, of Blackheath, Kent, by Harriet Amelia, daughter of Admiral Robert Coutart McCrea, R.N., of Guernsey; b. Nov. 24, 1874; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 17, 1889; left Jan. 1893; adm. a solicitor July 1898, practised in London; d. 1958.
POULDEN, THOMAS; b. ; adm. ; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 137); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1635; BA 1636/7.
POTTS, WILLIAM PERCIVALL, son of Samuel Potts, London, and Elizabeth Pott, St. Giles in the Fields, London; b. 9 Feb 1780; at school 1789, 1790; Writer, EICS Bengal 1798; arrived in India 6 Nov 1798; Assistant to Secretary, Board of Trade 17 Dec 1798; Assistant to Collector, Kanpur 11 Mar 1802; Register and Assistant to Magistrate, Farrukhabad 11 Aug 1803; Officiating Agent to Governor-Gen., Farrukhabad 19 Sep 1805; Assistant to Judge and Magistrate, Farrukhabad 10 Jul 1806; m. 15 Oct 1805 Alicia Friell; d. at Farrukhabad, India 10 Oct 1806. [father perhaps hosier]
POTTS, MICHAEL LE FLEMING, brother of Laurence Holker Potts (qv); b. 17 Oct 1791; in school list 1801; left Dec 1803; d. unm. at Leghorn, Italy.
POTTS, LAURENCE HOLKER, son of Cuthbert Potts, Pall Mall, London, surgeon, and Ethelinda Margaretta, dau. of John Thorpe FSA, Rochester, Kent, antiquary; b. 18 Apr 1789; in school list 1801; left Christmas 1803; St. George’s Hospital 1810; MRCS 1812; MD Aberdeen 1825; practised at Truro, Cornwall; Superintendent and Physician, County Lunatic Asylum, Bodmin, Cornwall 1828-37; established an institution for treating spinal diseases at Blackheath, Kent 1837; an inventor; took out a patent for sinking foundations under water by creating a partial vacuum 1843, which, although not a financial success for him, incidentally gave rise to the system of sinking foundations by compressed air; m. 1 Aug 1820 Anne, dau. of John Wright, Lower Redbrooke, Gloucs.; d. 23 Mar 1850. DNB.