Arthur Edward Powell (September 27, 1882 – March 20, 1969) was a Welsh Theosophist whose books were published beginning in the early 1900s.
He studied the major esoteric works of Helena Blavatsky, Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant.
Arthur's father Edward Powell was a solicitor, and Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of the Humber-Hillman Company (an automobile manufacturer).
The review noted that Powell 'uses quotations from standard medical authors when they can be made to serve his purpose, although they repudiate the conclusions he arrives'.
[2] A review in The Lancet journal suggested that 'Lieutenant Powell spoils his own cause, a cause with which we have no quarrel, by attempting to support it by disquisitions on the ethics of killing animals'.