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POPKIN, JOHN (fl. 1759-1824), Methodist and Sandemanian exhorter was excommunicated. He now began to translate into Welsh, and to publish, the works of Glass and Sandeman - Anghyfreithlondeb Bwyta Gwaed, 1764; Llythyrau rhwng Samuel Pike a Robert Sandeman, 1765; and similar books until 1768. Before the end of the 18th century he had begun to publish a series of testy, controversial books of his own authorship and continued to do so for some years - Dychymmygion
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian - and makes a half promise to publish 'a Welsh Dictionary, my father's Thesaurus'. SAMUEL POWEL (1570 - 1600) A graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, who succeeded his father as vicar (1598-1600) of Ruabon (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, iii, 286) GABRIEL POWEL (1576 - 1611) There is a D.N.B. article on him by Alexander Gordon. Apart from the fact that (like his father before him) he held
POWEL, JOHN (bu farw 1767), weaver-poet Of Rhyd-yr-Eirin, in the parish of Llansannan, Denbighshire. According to Owen Williams, Awduron Sir Ddinbych, he was born in 1731. It is said that he was a sexton also. One of the closest friends of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) when the latter was curate of Llanfair Talhaiarn, he also regarded him as his bardic teacher. A number of his poems are found in Swansea MS. 1 ('Y Piser Hir'), now in N.L.W
POWEL, SAMUEL (1570 - 1600), vicar - gweler POWEL, DAVID
POWEL, THOMAS (1845 - 1922), Celtic scholar mediaeval Welsh texts - in particular, Ystorya de Carolo Magno (1883). In 1888 he edited, on behalf of the Society of Cymmrodorion, Thomas Stephens's version of The Gododin of Aneurin Gwawdrydd, In 1896 he published a facsimile reproduction of bishop Morgan's Psalmau Dafydd, 1588, with copious notes. In 1890 he married Gwenny Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Jones of Neath and Penarth, by whom he
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, This family claims descent from Edwin ap Gronow of Tegeingl. Dafydd ap Philip ap Hywel is said to have been the first 'ap Hywel (whence Powell) connected with Llechwedd-dyrus, the first seat of the family; his wife, according to Peniarth MS 156 (see West Wales Historical Records, i), was daughter of John ap Edward of Nanteos. Their grandson, Sir THOMAS POWELL, Serjeant-at-law (1688), a Baron of
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, HOWELL (bu farw 1716), Congregational minister Born at Maes y Cletwr, Brychgoed, Brecknock. Nothing is known of his upbringing or of his early education. He was examined, on behalf of the Congregational Board, 29 March 1697, with a view to his being sent for a course of study; he was recommended for the Saffron Walden Academy under Thomas Payne, but his name does not appear in the extant lists of students. The interest shown in him by the
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 to King's Bench, 1687. In June 1688 he was one of the judges who acquitted the seven bishops, and was dismissed from the Bench; he was restored to the Bench in 1689. He died 7 September 1696, and was buried in Laugharne parish church. He has been confused with Sir John Powell of Gloucester (1645 - 1713; D.N.B.). His son THOMAS (1664 - 1720), of Broadway, Carmarthenshire and Coldbrook, Monmouthshire
POWELL, JOHN (Edmund Jones, Hist. of Aberystruth, 103, 131) from March 1736 till 3 October 1742. In the meantime (19 February 1739/40), he had become rector of Llanmartin and Wilcrick near Newport; he died there 25 March 1795. He was one of the earliest Methodist clerics, and was one of the three Welsh clergymen present at the Watford Association of January 1743. In 1778, we find him offering a curacy to Thomas
POWELL, JONATHAN (1764 - 1823), Independent minister of the leading men of his denomination in North Wales. He translated a number of English books into Welsh and was a hymn-writer of some distinction. In 1796 he published a small book of hymns of his own writing, Llawenydd yn Nglyn Wylofain, and in 1805 another, Y Credinwyr yn Angau, adapted from the work of Thomas Watson. He wrote an elegy upon Richard Tibbot, 1798. In 1821 he retired because of

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