Richard Cowley Powles

He was the son of John Diston Powles,[1] and was educated at Helston Grammar School under Derwent Coleridge.

[8] A witness of most of the course of the Oxford Movement, he gave Sidney Leslie Ollard an anecdotal story about John Henry Newman and ritual: alleging that the Tractarian use of the mixed chalice was explained by their severe fasting.

It grew around the Oxford and Cambridge Review, and comprised also George Butler, Arthur Hugh Clough, and James Anthony Froude.

[1] This he purchased from George Brown Francis Potticary, an Oxford contemporary who in that year became rector of Girton, Cambridgeshire.

Powles moved it in 1865, as "St Neot's Preparatory School", to Wixenford House, in Kingsley's parish of Eversley.

[17][18] One of his Wixenford pupils, Albert Victor Baillie, called Powles "a genuine educator and a remarkable man", going on to describe his hairstyle, brushed up into two horns over his ears.

[20][21] The school was taken over by Ernest Penrose Arnold, an Oxford graduate in 1874; and it moved to Wokingham.