Powell, Baden, physicist, rationalist in theology, born in London; was Savilian professor of Geometry at Oxford, wrote a number of treatises on physical subjects, and contributed to the famous “Essays and Reviews” an essay on the evidences of Christianity which gave no small offence to orthodox people (1796‒1860).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Poussin, Nicolas * Powell, Major