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POWELL, HOWELL (1819 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister in the U.S.A., and author Born 26 October 1819 at Tŷ-newydd, Ystradgynlais, Brecknock. He worked at the Ynyscedwyn Iron Works and afterwards (from 1832) at Tredegar. In 1842 he emigrated to the U.S.A., settling at Abersiwgr, Pennsylvania. Ordained in 1846, he took charge, in 1851, of a Calvinistic Methodist church at Cincinnati, removing in 1869 to take charge of a Calvinistic Methodist church in New York. With Eos Glan
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
POWELL, PHILIP (1594 - 1646), O.S.B. him to Flanders where he studied, at Fr. Baker's expense, at the University of Louvain, 1614-19. He was ordained priest in 1618 and was professed a monk on 15 August 1619, having studied under Dom Leander Jones, O.S.B.. He was next made cellarer of S. Gregory's monastery, Douai, and was sent on the English mission on 7 March 1622. He lived with Dom Baker for sixteen months in Gray's Inn Lane, London
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army of the king. They had been in touch with prince Charles at S. Germains and had been promised Royalist assistance. Powell gathered his forces at Carmarthen where colonel Fleming, the commissioner for disbanding, and colonel Thomas Horton attempted to bring him to action in the last week of April 1648. Fleming won an advantage in a skirmish, but in pressing home his attack found himself outnumbered
POWELL, THOMAS (1572? - 1635?), attorney and author
POWELL, THOMAS (1781 - 1842), Congregational minister and author
POWELL, THOMAS, chartist
POWELL, THOMAS (1608? - 1660), cleric from Jenkin Jones of Llanddety, one of the approvers appointed under the Act for the propagation of the Gospel in Wales. It is possible that his exile was due to the fact that he had ignored Jenkin Jones's prohibition. His only Welsh book, Cerbyd Iechydwriaeth, 1657, is tainted with the bitterness of those years. He was restored to his parish in 1660 and was appointed canon of S. Davids. According to
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner business associate, Thomas Prothero of Malpas and John Latch of Newport, founded the short-lived Newport Coal Association to control prices, the first coal ring in South Wales. In 1840 he resolved to exploit the steam coal in the Aberdare valley, sinking his first pit at Tir Founder; in 1842 he struck the famous four-foot seam. He followed up this success by sinking the Plough, Lower Duffryn, Middle
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine Westminster assembly, after being named by the Committee for Plundered Ministers to preach in Wales (Bodl. MS. 325 (68)). He was with Thomas Mytton's forces attacking Beaumaris in the autumn of 1648 (Phillips, Civil War in Wales, ii, 382-401). On 2 December 1649 he preached before Thomas Foot, lord mayor of London, and on 28 February 1650, before the House of Commons. Under the Act of Propagation he was an

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