Francis Powell 1682-1749
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Francis POWELL 1682-1749
Biographical Note
Born at Colchester, Essex, son of Joseph Powell, clergyman. BA St John's College, Cambridge 1702, MA 1705. Vicar of Rendham, Suffolk 1711, of Colchester 1713-49.
Books
Powell used an engraved armorial bookplate, dated 1736 (Franks 23938). The extent of his library is not known; most of his books were presumably inherited by his son, William Samuel Powell (1717-75), later Master of St John's at Cambridge, who bequeathed his books among four college fellows when he died unmarried.
Sources
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.
- Young, B. W. "Powell, William Samuel (1717–1775), college head." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.