POULET. See PAULET.
Admitted 5 January, 1610-11.
Eldest son of Sir Anthony Paulett (q.v.), Governour of Jersey. In the year of his admission to the Inn he was returned for Somerset, for which county he sat till 1614. In 1620 he represented Lyme Regis. He was raised to the Peerage as Baron Poulett of Hinton St. George by Charles I. in 1627. In 1635 he commanded a ship under Admiral the Earl of Lindsey, by whom he was knighted. In 1640 he was impeached by the Parliament for resisting the Militia Ordinance. In 1643 he raised a force, which he led into Dorset, and besieged Lyme Regis. Being appointed Commissioner of Exeter, he was taken prisoner on the surrender of that city in 1646, and was brought to London, where he died 20 March, 1648-9. He was the grandfather of John, first Earl Poulett.
Admitted 25 April, 1775.
Only son of James Powell of Queen Street, Westminster. He was called to the Bar 5 May, 1780, and practised as a Conveyancer. He was the author of treatises on Mortgages (1758); Devises (1788); Powers (1787); Contracts and Agreements (1790), all of which were of high repute, and have been frequently reproduced. In 1795 he edited the Essay on Contingent Remainders of Mr. Fearne, whose pupil he had been. He died 21 June, 1801.
Admitted 28 May, 1842.
Eldest son of Thomas Powell of Gloucester, where he was born 3 Sept. 1816. He was called to the Bar 16 April, 1847, and became a member, and finally leader of the Oxford Circuit. On 3 Feb. 1863, he took silk, and in the November following of the same year was elected a Bencher of the Inn, of which he became Treasurer in 1876. He was appointed Recorder of Wolverhampton in 1864 and a County Court Judge in 1884, sitting first at Bradford, and afterwards at Lambeth and Greenwich. He died 15 Sept. 1891. He founded a Scholarship of the value of fifteen pounds per annum at the Middle Temple known as the "J. J. Powell Prize."
Admitted 3 February, 1827.
Sixth son of Dr. John Power of Lichfield. He was born at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, in 1805. He was educated at Repton and Cambridge, where he graduated first class in the Classical Tripos 1826. After his call to the Bar on 12 Feb. 1830, he held a series of public appointments, and became finally Vice-President of the Local Government Board for Ireland (1872), and in the following year was knighted. He died in Dublin 8 June, 1888. He was the author of A Political Catechism (1853) and of Sanitary Rhymes (1871).
