Plas Machynlleth Hunt
Kennels: Llynlloed, Machynlleth. Station: Machynlleth, GWR. Couple of hounds: 20. Master: Hon R Beaumont. Huntsman: D Hughes. Whipper in: H Roberts. Secretary: Capt RH Jones-Evans, Llynlloed, Machynlleth. Hunting days: Five days a fortnight, regularly through the season on Thursdays, Saturdays. Description of Country "Very rough, very little riding". Hunting centres: Machynlleth.
[The foxhunters' yearbook 1930-1931]
[The foxhunters' yearbook 1930-1931]
Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company
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Powel, Charles (1712-1796)
Last of the male line of Powels of Castlemadoc, Breconshire he was an antiquary and topographical draughtsman who exhibited at the Royal Academy 1783-88. He corresponded with many of the antiquaries of note and his researches into the antiquities of South Wales were referred to by John Strange in two papers presented to the Society of Antiquaries in 1769 and 1775. Powel's wife was Catherine Penry descendant of John Penry of Cefn Brith)
[National Museum of Wales Catalogue of Topographical Prints; Jones, pp.182-5; Poole p. 311; DWB]
[National Museum of Wales Catalogue of Topographical Prints; Jones, pp.182-5; Poole p. 311; DWB]
Powel, Philip (1594-1636)
Philip Powel was born in Trallwm, Breconshire, the son of a small farmer. He was sent to the Grammar School at Abergavenny where his schoolmaster Morgan Lewis was a Catholic sympathiser. At the end of the 16th century the great puritan John Penry recorded that in Wales the superstitious practices of Rome were the only religious practices people knew. Although non-attendance at the services of the reformed Church of England was punishable by a fine and activity as a catholic priest treasonable, there was still widespread sympathy for the old ways and Powel came under the influence of David Baker a local Benedictine. In 1610 he was sent to study Law at the Temple, a centre of recusancy, in London. Still under Baker’s influence, and financially assisted by the older man he travelled abroad and studied for the priesthood at the University of Louvain, being ordained at 24. He entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory at Douai where there were many Welsh Catholics. In 1622 he returned to England and David Baker, continuing his studies and preparing for a life as a missionary priest. This new career he embarked on in the West Country, and he continued his ministry there until the Civil War. He was an army chaplain to Cavalier forces in Cornwall until forced to flee to South Wales by Parliamentary successes. He was caught at sea and admitted to being a Catholic priest. After conducting a sturdy defence at his trial he was found guilty and condemned. His fortitude while in ill health in poor prison conditions impressed his captors and even his judges appealed for a pardon. He was however, hanged at Tyburn on 30 June 1636.
[B 17]
[B 17]
Powell, David (fl.1662)
Of Maesmawr in the parish of Llandinam. He married Elizabeth daughter of Meredith Morgan of Aberhafesp who was Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1636. Powell was himself Sheriff in 1662.
[MC 27]
[MC 27]
Powell, Howell (1819-1875)
The son of Thomas Powell of Tynewydd, Ystradgynlais, agent for the Ynyscedwyn steelworks. Orphaned at the age of eight he and his brothers and sisters were brought up by his grandmother on the proceeds of the sale of two small farms. After a short period of schooling in Swansea Howell worked at the steelworks himself before moving to Tredegar and working down a coal pit. He became a class teacher at the local Sunday School but declined the urgings of his friends to train for the ministry. In 1842 he emigrated to America settling at Brady's End, Pennsylvania where he worked in the ironworks and joined the local Methodist congregation. When his employer closed down he built a raft on which he sailed down the Ohio river to Pittsburg to find employment It was here in 1846 that he was ordained being the first full-time Welsh minister in America. In 1851 he took over a Calvinistic Methodist church at Cincinatti. He returned to Wales for a visit in 1861 during which he preached 120 times in three months. His last post was as minister of a Welsh Presbyterian Church in New York. He wrote biographies of Welsh American preachers and with Eos Glan Twrch (John Edwards) as co-editor he published Llyfr Hymnau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd.
[DWB; Davies]
[DWB; Davies]
Powell, Richard (d.1559)
One of the Powells of Ednop or Edenhope in the parish of Mainstone, Shropshire though once in Montgomeryshire. Richard ap Howell (Powell) was a sergeant-at-arms to Henry VIII. This position must have been one of influent for he was appointed chief forester to the King’s forests of Kerry, Llanllwchaiarn and Tregynon for life. He served on the jury at county sessions and appears to have benefitted from the dissolution of the priory at Chirbury. In 1554 he was granted crown demesne lands in Cedewain (Dolforwyn, Manafon and townships in Tregynon) and appointed Sheriff of Montgomeryshire. Unusually he was appointed sheriff again the following year.
[W.V. Lloyd - the Sherriffs of Montgomeryshire]
[W.V. Lloyd - the Sherriffs of Montgomeryshire]
Powell, Richard (fl.1657)
One of three Ministers or Preachers of the Word at Llangattock during the Commonwealth, recorded in office in 1657.
[Crickhowell & District Civic Society]
[Crickhowell & District Civic Society]