Background
He was the son of Francis Cox Powell.
He was the son of Francis Cox Powell.
He was educated at Rutlish School and Inns of Court.
He was with the Queen"s Westminster Rifles, 1910-1914. He was with the King"s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1914-1918 and was gassed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He was Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1921.
He practised in London and on the South East circuit.
He was a Metropolitan Police Magistrate from 1936-1963. Greenwich and Woolwich 1936-1940, Tower Bridge 1940-1942 and Clerkenwell 1942-1963.
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Surrey in 1937. He was Honorary Legal adviser to the New Malden Citizens Advice Bureau, 1939-1946.
He was on the executive committee of the National Young Life Campaign.
He was Liberal candidate for the Kingston-upon-Thames Division of Surrey at the 1929 General Election. Along with the national trend, Powell was able to increase the Liberal vote share;
Following the formation of the National Government in 1931 there was another General Election. As a consequence, the Liberal Party did not run a candidate in Kingston against the Conservative who was the sitting National government candidate.
Powell was Chairman of the Malden branch of the League of Nations Union.
He was Liberal candidate again for the Kingston-upon-Thames Division of Surrey at the 1935 General Election. An opportunity came to contest the seat again at the Kingston upon Thames by-election, 1937, but the Liberal party did not field a candidate.
He was Chairman of the National Association of Homes and Hostels, 1955-1960. He was President of the Probation Officers Christian Fellowship, 1954-1966.
By then, the electoral fortunes of the party were in decline and he came a poor third.
He was a Member of Council of the Magistrates Association, 1942-1960. He was a Member of the Chairmen’s Panel, of the Metropolitan Juvenile Courts, 1946-1952.
