Background
Powell was born in Kimberley, Cape Province, in 1873. He was a good all-rounder for the period with safe hands in the field, he played sporadically for Griqualand West from 1892/93 to 1904/05.
Powell was born in Kimberley, Cape Province, in 1873. He was a good all-rounder for the period with safe hands in the field, he played sporadically for Griqualand West from 1892/93 to 1904/05.
When Lord Hawke brought England to South Africa in 1898/99, Powell was selected for the second Test, played at Cape Town. In 1896, Powell played at centre for the South Africa national rugby union team in the third Test of the British Isles tour of South Africa. This would be his one and only international rugby cap.
His death in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in 1948 went unrecorded and therefore no obituary appeared within Wisden for him at the time.