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Walter Powell (politician)
Walter Powell (17 April 1842 – 10 December 1881) was a Welsh colliery owner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1881. Powell was carried out over the English Channel in a balloon and never seen again.
==Early life and education==
Powell was the son of Thomas Powell of Newport, Monmouthshire and his wife Anne Williams, daughter of Walter Williams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debrett's House of Commons )〕 His father had interests in coal, railways and shipping and was one of the world's largest coal producers in the 1840s. His company now operates under the name of Powell Duffryn plc in the areas of ports and engineering, although the coal and railway interests were nationalised in the 1940s.
Powell was the youngest of three brothers and had three sisters. He was educated at Rugby School and continued in the family business. In 1869 he had to journey to Africa to take care of family matters after the murders of his brother Thomas and Thomas' wife and son by robbers on a trip to Abyssinia. Powell was a J.P. for Wiltshire. His great interest was ballooning.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Walter Powell MP Balloonist )〕
This interest developed in the late 1870s and he began studying ballooning with Henry Coxwell, one of the leading baloonists of the day. Eventually Powell made his own ascents and had a balloon of his own, the ''Eclipse''.
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