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Arnold Cecil Powell (18 September 1882 – 15 November 1963) was an
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schoolmaster, educationalist and
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man who was head master of several schools successively, ending his career as
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of St Mary’s Hospital,
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Early life

The son of W. H. Powell, he was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, London, and
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, where he was an open Exhibitioner and took his degree in the Natural Sciences Tripos.''POWELL, Canon Arnold Cecil MA'' in '' Who Was Who'' (London, A. & C. Black)


Career

Powell's first post was as an assistant master at
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. He next taught at King’s School, Grantham, and at
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. His first appointment as a headmaster came at Skipton Grammar School, from where he was appointed head at Bedford Modern School in 1917,''
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'', Saturday, January 13, 1917 (Issue 41375), p. 4, col. B
before serving as head master at
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from 1922 to 1939. In 1939 Powell became
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of Graffham with Lavington, where he remained until 1947, and served also as
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of
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from 1945 to 1947. In 1947 he was appointed Prebendary of Highleigh and acted as Custos of St Mary’s Hospital,
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, from 1954 to 1962.


Private life

In 1909, Powell married Mary Winnifred, a daughter of A. Walker, of Haxby Hall, York, and they had two sons and one daughter. After his first wife had died in 1954, in 1955 he married secondly Eva, the widow of Canon Salwey of
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. He was a member of the
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Publications

*Arnold Cecil Powell, ''The Hospital of the Blessed Mary, Chichester'' (1962)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Arnold 1882 births 1963 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 20th-century English Anglican priests Headmasters of Epsom College People educated at St Olave's Grammar School