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31 October 1923, 7
Powell (1878–1951), the son of a Methodist minister, was appointed to the ‘Manchester Guardian’ as an editorial assistant in 1915. His obituary in the ‘Guardian’ of 19 September 1951 says of him: ‘He was in fact an austere Nonconformist, and his moral attitude would have made him more at home in the stern Puritan England of the Commonwealth or in some strict Dissenting sect of the eighteenth century than in the lax world he knew.’ He wrote a book of parodies with John Drinkwater, ‘The Poets in the Nursery’ (1920). At the time of writing this review he was literary critic for the ‘Manchester Guardian’.
