Modern English biography

xviii_ 419 _where he is shown lecturing on the rotation of the earth_, 468 (1851). POWELL, CALEB (eld. son of Eyre Burton Powell, barrister, _d._ 1800). _b._ 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1813; called to the Irish bar 1817; M.P. Limerick county 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847; sheriff of Limerick 1858. _d._ Clonshavoy, near Limerick 24 Feb. 1881. POWELL, HENRY J. Equestrian actor; lessee of the Pavilion theatre, London 1867–8; lessee of Sadler’s Wells theatre; travelled the provinces with a dramatic and equestrian company 1873–8; fell into a stream of water and was suffocated, found _dead_ on Wimbledon common, Surrey 4 May 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 10 May. _Era 19 May 1878 p._ 12. POWELL, _John Hardman_ (son of Wm. Powell of Birmingham, who _d._ 1861). _b._ Newhall st. Birmingham 2 March 1827; pupil of Augustus Welby Pugin 1843–52; artistic head of firm of J. Hardman and Co. Birmingham 1852; some of his principal works were the heraldic and other glass in the houses of parliament 1847–59, Westminster hall 1849, St. Stephen’s crypt 1860, Worcester cathedral 1859–75, St. Neot’s, Hants. 1859–80, Beverley minster 1856–94, St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham 1869, the Catholic church, Cambridge 1888, and St. John the Baptist, Norwich 1894; _m._ 1850 Anne, dau. of A. W. Pugin. _d._ 12 Lee road, Blackheath, Kent 2 March 1895. _bur._ in the Pugin chantry in St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate. _Times 4 March 1895 p._ 10; _Tablet 9 March 1895_. POWELL, JOHN JOSEPH (eld. son of Thomas Powell). _b._ Gloucester 3 Sept. 1816; barrister M.T. 16 April 1847, bencher 23 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1876; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1863; recorder of Wolverhampton 21 May 1864 to death; judge of county court, circuit No. 11, (West Riding of Yorkshire), and joint judge of Leeds in circuit No. 14, 9 April 1884 to Oct. 1885; judge of circuit No. 47, Greenwich, etc. Oct. 1885 to death; M.P. Gloucester 1862–5; contested Gloucester 3 Feb. 1874; contested Weymouth 17 Nov. 1868. _d._ suddenly while on a visit at Widmore lodge, Bickley 15 Sept. 1891. _Law Times 19 Sept. 1891 p._ 355. POWELL, JOSEPH MARTIN (youngest son of Thomas Powell). _b._ Gloucester 2 June 1822; apprenticed to John Cowmeadow of Ross, bookseller; worked with Bradbury and Evans London to 1844; a compositor in America 1844–5; country traveller for S. and T. Sharwood of the Austin letter foundry 1845–52; executed commissions for Barrett and Co. bible publishers, London 1845, and other firms to death; founder and proprietor of Printers’ Register 1863, and editor to death; a type broker at 3 Bouverie st. 1868–74 and in St. Bride’s st. March 1874 to death. _d._ 14 Hillmarten road, Camden road, London 17 Sept. 1874. _bur._ Finchley cemetery 23 Sept. _The Printers’ Register 6 Oct. 1874 pp._ 182–4. POWELL, LEWIS. _b._ Trecastle, South Wales 1796; educ. St. George’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1818; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1818; in practice 13 John st. Berkeley sq. London from 1837, latterly in partnership with J. T. Smith; the Powell ward in St. George’s hospital is named after him; author of De rheumatismo, Edinburgh 1823. _d._ 13 John st. London 18 Feb.