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John powell author biography.
In my will, therefore, I had left to your University - as well as being quite the worthiest and most intelligent corporate body in my dear but benighted town - all I possessed ‘of bigotry and virtue’.
Letter GP to Principal T C Edwards, 4.iv.1879
George Ernest John Powell (1842-1882) was the son of Colonel William Thomas Rowland Powell of Cheltenham (1815-1878), Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire (1859-1865), and Rosa Edwyna Powell (née Cherry) of Buckland, Herefordshire.
His early years were spent at the family mansion of Nanteos three miles south of Aberystwyth.
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The family wealth was accrued from the profits of various lead and silver ore mines in Cardiganshire. George Powell was initially educated at home by his mother and a governess, Sarah Love from London, sent to public school in Cheltenham and then to Eton in the mid 1850s.
In 1861 he matriculated to Brasenose College, Oxford but left before graduating. He spent most of his adult life in Londo