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Darwin Correspondence Project

John Allan Powell

b. c. 1790 d. 1859

Solicitor. Born in Jamaica. At Lincoln’s Inn from 1806. Attorney for George IV at the trial of Queen Caroline in 1820.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/734/8/40/1)

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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