POWELL, JAMES, son of Arthur Powell, Carshalton, Surrey; bapt. Carshalton, Surrey 24 Aug 1678 (IGI, sic); adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1699/1700; BA 1702/3.

POWELL, HENRY, elder surviving son of Rev. Thomas Powell, Tyle Glas, Glasbury, Breconshire, and Margaret ---; b.; adm.; KS 1681; failed to obtain election to either university 1683; a letter from Sir Leoline Jenkins, Secretary of State, to Dr. John Lloyd, Principal of Jesus Coll. Oxford, dated 31 Mar 1684 recommends him for a scholarship (State Papers); ordained; Vicar of Talgarth, Breconshire 1693-4; Vicar of Llangadoch, Carmarthenshire 1694. [But see Foster, who has Henry Powell, son of Rev. Thomas Powell, Clyro, Radnorshire, Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1680/1, aged 17, BA 4 Mar 1685/6; MA from St. John’s Cambridge 1690; Vicar of Hay on Wye 1688, Llywel 1689, Talgarth 1694; Prebendary of Brecon 1693, St. Davids 1694] [note will Rev. Henry Powell MA, Vicar of Llangadoch and Prebendary of Llandisilio, Carmarthenshire, proved PCC 24 Dec 1736]

POWELL, FRANCIS, son of Rev. Morgan Powell, Rector of Cradley, Herefs., and Mary, elder dau. of Rev. Richard Harris, Prebendary of Worcester, previously Principal of Brasenose Coll. Oxford; bapt. Cradley, Herefs. 8 Mar 1613 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 15) 1629; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1632, matr. 26 Oct 1632, Westminster Student to 1636 (or later ?); BA 1636; MA 1639 (incorp. Cambridge 1651); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648; “absent on leave” when required to take the Engagement by order of the Committee 17 Feb 1650 (Burrows, 329); will dated 20 Feb 1657/8, proved PCC 23 Jul 1658.

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).

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.

POTTER, CHARLES, son of Very Rev. Christopher Potter DD, Provost of Queen’s Coll. Oxford and Dean of Worcester, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Charles Sonnibanke DD, Canon of Windsor; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1645; adm. to Queen’s Coll. Oxford, 4 Jul 1645, but afterwards migrated to Christ Church; BA 1649; MA 1651; joined exiled court of Charles II; became a Roman Catholic; appointed Usher to the Queen Dowager (Henrietta Maria) at Restoration; d. Dec 1663. DNB.

PORTLOCK, BENJAMIN; b.; adm.; KS 1677; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, scholar 9 May 1683; 6th in “ordo” 1685/6; BA 1685/6; MA 1689 (incorp. Oxford 9 Nov 1695); DCL Oxford 18 May 1702; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 12 Sep 1687, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1689 – c. 1698; Second Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Feb 1703 – Apr 1707; MP (I) Innistioge 1703-13; Taster of Wines (I) 1705-13; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 18 Nov 1703; of Clapham, Surrey; left by his will mourning rings to Robert Friend (qv) and John Nicholl (qv); lic. to m. 29 Feb 1711/2 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bate, Maids Moreton, Bucks.; d. 6 Sep 1740.

PORTER, WILLIAM, son of John Porter, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 7) May 1744, chorister; KS 1749; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1754, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1754, scholar 18 Apr 1755, matr. Lent 1755; BA 1758; MA 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1759, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1761; ordained; Curate, Woolwich, Kent; Vicar of Cobham, Kent, from Jul 1766; Reader, Highgate Chapel; Headmaster, Highgate School, from 1780; m. c. Nov 1761 Mary Horner, Tothill Street, Westminster; d. 11 Jun 1793.