Alexander Powell (9 June 1782 – 25 December 1847) was a British Tory politician, who sat as Member of Parliament for Downton from 1826 to 1830.
[1] He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating on 26 May 1800 aged 17, graduating B.A.
In the 1826 general election, Radnor nominated Thomas Grimston Estcourt, a local squire recently elected MP for Oxford University in a by-election, and Robert Southey, the Tory poet laureate, as MPs for Downton.
Neither took their seat: Estcourt continued to represent the university, while Southey, nominated without his knowledge and wishing to continue to live and write in the Lake District, declined the seat on the grounds that he did not meet the property qualification.
Radnor therefore nominated his half-brother Bartholomew Bouverie and Alexander Powell, both Tories, who were returned in by-elections in December 1826.