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Author: Powell, John

Biography:

POWELL, John (1761-1836: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 24 June 1761 and baptised on 27 July at St. Cadoc’s, Llangatwg Feibion Afel, Monmouth, South East Wales, the son of the Rev. John Powell (1723-1805) and his wife Jane Powell (1732-1800) (possibly a cousin) who had married on 12 Aug. 1760. He went to Wadham College, Oxford (matric. 1778, BA 1783) and then entered the church. He later incorporated at Cambridge (King’s, MA 1794). He was Rector of St. Tysoi, Llansoy, Monmouth 1796-1836, held the living of Dixton, and was also master of Monmouth Free Grammar School 1793-1823. He also seems to have taken in pupils at 20 guineas a year. He was Chaplain to the Monmouth County Gaol and in 1823 was appointed Lecturer to the Jones’s Charity which ran almshouses for the poor. He married Elizabeth Hopkins on 4 June 1789 at St. Mary’s, Monmouth. They had at least eight children but his will of 1836 mentions only his wife and son, Henry. He died on 29 Apr. 1836 at his house in Weybridge Street, Monmouth, and was buried on 3 May at St. Peter’s, Dixton. His volume (his only known publication) consists of undistinguished odes and elegies, but is rare, with Bodley the only known surviving copy. (ancestry.co.uk 26 Sept. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 26 Aug. 2021; freereg.org. uk 26 Sept. 2021; CCEd 26 Sept. 2021; Hereford Journal 10 July 1793, 21 May 1823, 11 May 1836; GM July 1836, 104) AA

 

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Hereford: [no publisher: printed "for the Author" by C. Pugh], 1783