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===[[name::Griffith]] [[name::POWELL]]  [[date of birth::1560;1561|1560/1]]-[[date of death::1620]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born in [[place of birth::Llansawel, Carmarthenshire]], son of [[family::John ap Hywel]].  BA [[education::Jesus College, Oxford]] 1584, MA and [[occupation::fellow]] 1589, BCL 1593, DCL 1599.  He spent the rest of his life in [[location::Oxford]], becoming [[occupation::Principal]] of [[education::Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus]] in 1613.  He was an effective [[occupation::administrator]] and [[occupation::fundraiser]]  for the College, successfully appealing to the Welsh clergy and gentry for money to build the hall, chapel, outer quadrangle and other buildings.  During the 1590s he published [[author::two commentaries on Aristotle]].

====Books==== 
Powell’s [[bequest::estate]] was bequeathed to [[beneficiary::Jesus College, Oxford|Jesus College]] and his books constituted an important element in the foundation of the College Library.  Ca. 100 books survive today, from a gift which may originally have been larger; these are mostly 16th-century imprints, with a significant proportion (ca. 80%) relating to [[subject::law]].

====Characteristic Markings==== 
Powell typically wrote his name on titlepages, together with the two line motto O Jesu este mihi Jesus/Dominis mea portio.

====Sources==== 
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*C. Fordyce & T. Knox, ''The library of Jesus College, Oxford'', OBS Proceedings & Papers, 1937.
*Williams, Barrie. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22649 "Powell, Griffith (1560/61–1620), college head."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 
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