About Griffith Powell
Lived 1561 – 1620 (aged 58–59). Griffith Powell was a philosopher.
Griffith Powell (1561 – 15 June He was elected Fellow of the college in 1589.
Powell wrote two volumes on Aristotelian philosophy, Analysis analyticorum posteriorum (1594) and De sophisticis elenchis (1598). The hall still retains the panelling, three tables and two benches from the time of this work. He left his whole estate to the college; lands in Flintshire were bought with the proceeds, and these remained in college ownership until 1966. The college chapel was completed within a year of his death.
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British philosopher
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Griffith Powell was born in 1561 in Llansawel.
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Griffith Powell died on 15 June 1620.
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Griffith Powell was a philosopher.
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