Grandage Powell

Grandage Edwards Powell (20 November 1882 – 5 March 1948) was an Anglican bishop in the second quarter of the 20th century.

Powell was born in Fallowfield, Lancashire, into a clerical family, the son of Rev.

[1] He was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford and ordained in 1906.

[2] After curacies in Fallowfield and Blackburn he rose rapidly in the Church of England hierarchy becoming successively vicar of St Matthew's West Kensington,[3] Rural Dean of Leicester and Archdeacon of Carlisle.

After four years in Cumberland he was ordained to the episcopate as the Suffragan Bishop of Penrith.