Gabriel Powell

Gabriel Powell (baptised 1576–1611) was a Welsh Anglican priest, known for his strident anti-Catholic views.

Life Powell (the son of the clergyman and historian David Powel) was born in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales, and baptised in January 1576. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1592 to 1596 and then, after some studying abroad, was appointed to the sinecure position of rector of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Richard Vaughan, the bishop of London, appointed him as his domestic chaplain in 1605; Powell became rector of Chellesworth, Suffolk, England, in 1606 and ceased to hold the parish of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain after 1607. In 1609, he was made a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, London and in the following year he became the vicar of Northolt, Middlesex.