POWER, THOMAS, son of Thomas Power, London; b. ; adm. ; KS 1672 ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1678, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1678, aged 18, scholar 1679, matr.1679 ; BA 1681/2; MA 1685; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1684, Tutor 1686-92 (he evidently retained his Fellowship until his death, despite his departure for the West Indies); ordained deacon 16 Feb 1689/90, priest 22 May 1692 (both Rochester); Preacher, Bermuda 28 Mar 1693; accompanied John Goddard, newly appointed Lieut.-Governor of Bermuda, on his voyage out there in 1693, arriving in Bermuda 10 Aug 1693, where he found himself the only Church of England clergyman (see letter from Power to Rev. Dr. (James) Blair (DD), 24 Aug 1693, preserved in Trinity Coll. Cambridge MS R.2.38); Rector of St. Mary’s, Antigua Jan 1695; latterly Rector of St. John’s, Nevis ; contributed the Twelfth Satire to Dryden’s translation of Juvenal; four items by him are included in the Examen Poeticum, 1698; a Latin verse translation by him of Book I of Milton’s Paradise Lost was published in 1691, and his translations into Latin hexameters of Books II-XII are preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Trinity Coll. MS R.2.38 contains a copy of his Latin translation of Books II-VII, while Trinity Coll. C.1.64 (now MS R.2.37) is a copy of the printed folio edition of Paradise Lost, 1688, with an interlinear Latin translation of Books VIII-XII in Power’s hand); understood to have composed a poem on ‘The Sugar-Cane’, but this was never published and no text of it has been located ; d. 14 December 1698 (M.I. St. John’s, Antigua).

Powell-Jones, John Owen Home, son of Henry Ellis Powell-Jones and Evelyn Laing, d. of Erskine Sandilands Home of West Reston, Berwickshire; b. 2 Sept. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left July 1934; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxf. July 1934 but did not matnculate; area man. Shell agency Addis Ababa; Derbyshire Yeomanry and Somaliland Camel Corps in WW2 (Maj.); co. manager Lagos, Nigeria, later National Trust official GB; m. 15 Jan. 1950 Rosalind Marion Wallis, d. of Paul Jewitt of Wherwell, Hants; d. 7 Sept. 1978.

POWELL, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS in 1619; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1621, adm. scholar 1622, matr. Easter 1622.

POWELL, ROWLAND, eldest son of John Powell, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1655, adm. pens. 23 May 1655, scholar 1656, matr. Easter 1656; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Dec 1658; m. 18 Jan 1661/2 Elizabeth Hazelocke, Newington Butts, Surrey.

POWELL, RICHARD, son of John Powell, Westminster, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 24 Jul 1709 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1722; KS 1723; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1727, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1727, scholar 17 May 1728, matr. 1728; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Mar 1728/9.

POWELL, JOHN; b.; adm.; BB; KS 1689; left 1690.

POWELL, JOHN, son of Giles Powell, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1731/2; Min. Can. 1735; KS 1736; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1740, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1740, scholar 10 Apr 1741; BA 1743/4; MA 1747; BD 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1746, Major Fellow 9 Jul 1747; ordained deacon (Ely) Mar 1746/7, priest (Peterborough) 20 Dec 1747; an Usher at the School c. 1745-8 (?) (still in Chamberlayne 1748); Rector of Shudy Camps, Cambs., 1759; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., from 1763; d. 3 Feb 1765.

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.