Men-at-the-Bar/Powles, Louis Diston

3057799Men-at-the-Bar — Powles, Louis DistonJoseph Foster


Powles, Louis Diston, educated at Harrow and Pembroke Coll., Oxon, reporter for Law Times in probate division 1878-1880, applied for silk twice in 1882 and once in 1883, a member of the South-eastern circuit, author of Powles', Browne on Probate, Practitioner's Handbook to the New Rules, and of Supplement to Browne on Probate and Browne on Divorce, a student of the Inner Temple 10 April, 1863 (then aged 20), called to the bar 30 April, 1866 (youngest son of John Diston Powles, Esq., of Barham Wood, Herts); born 11 Oct., 1842; married 28 Sept, 1868, Catherine, 2nd dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Prescott, G C.B. (by his wife Mary, eldest dau. of Admiral Phillipe d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon, Prince de Bourbon).

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