FOULKES
,
HENRY POWELL
(
1815
-
1886
),
cleric and author
;
b.
2 January 1815
at
Stanstead Bury, Herts.
, the second son of
John Powell
and
Caroline Mary
Foulkes
. He was educated at
King's School
,
Chester
,
Shrewsbury
and
Balliol College
,
Oxford
, where he graduated
B.A.
1837
and
M.A.
1840
. He was ordained
deacon
in
June, 1839
with a title to the curacy of
Halkin
,
Flintshire
and in July of the same year he was ordained
priest
. He was given the living of
Llandyssil, Mont.
, in
1857
and he was made
Archdeacon of Montgomery
in
1861
, an office that carried with it a canonry in the cathedral. He was presented to the living of
Whittington, Shropshire
in
1879
and he stayed there until his death. He married
Jane Margaret
, the daughter of
Edward
Lloyd
,
Rhagad
and they had one daughter who died when she was 14.
He was the
author of several handbooks for use in Sunday schools
. He read a paper on the history of the
Church in Wales
at the
Church Conference
in
Leeds
in
1872
. He d.
January 26, 1886
and was buried in
St. Asaph cathedral
.
Sources:
-
Rhestr gyda nodiadau byrion, o Enwogion
Cymreig o 1700 i 1900
(1908)
;
-
Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen ... from the earliest times to the present
(1908)
;
-
Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion
Cymru
(1870)
;
-
Thomas
,
A History of the Diocese of St.
Asaph
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
Bye–Gones, relating to Wales and the Border
Counties
,
1886
;
- S. Asaph diocesan records;
-
NLW MS
9257.
Author:
Griffith Milwyn Griffiths, M.A., Aberystwyth
