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358 Dan y pare, by whom he had a son Thomas Harcourt Powell of Peterstone Court. This gentleman matric. from Oriel Coll. Oxford 8 March 1771, aged 17, his father being then described as of Titenham, co. Gloucester, arm., and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 22 April 1769, where he was called to the bar 3 Feb. 1780. He was afterwards admitted ad eundem to the Inner Temple 28 April 1809, of which Society he was elected a Bencher 10 May 1816. He was a Steward of the Anniversary Festival of the Antient Britons in 1778, and a Vice President thereof in 1809. His name appears as one of the subscribers to Jones' History in 1805, when he was one of the Trustees of the Rev. Rees Powell of Bough- rood's Charity. He died unmarried at Peterstone Court in May 1822, leaving that property to his cousin the Rev. Thomas Powell, for life, and afterwards to that gentleman's nephew Gabriel Middleton Powell, who in a few years' time sold it, as previously mentioned. THE GWYNNES OF GLANBRAN. {Continued from page 304.) Thynne Howe Gwynne of Buckland, which fine estate he inherited under the will of his father Roderick Gwynne. upon his decease in 1774, has , already been mentioned on pages 293 et se,j. of Vol. II. Old Wales. Born in 1752, he served as High Sheriff of co. Brecon 1777, and still further inc eased his property by his marriage with Maria Eleanora the second of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Edward Mathews of Aberaman, and Llandough Castle, Glamorgan, High Sheriff of co. Brecon 1717, as of Gileston, by the daughter