• of John Diston Powles by his second marriage, and was educated at Harrow School. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1861. Powles entered the...
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  • John Diston Powles (c. 1787 – 14 September 1867) was an English businessman. Powles was involved in numerous companies, typically as a major shareholder...
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  • around 1807/8. By 1849 it exported pineapples and citrus fruit. Louis Diston Powles visited Eleuthera, and in his book The Land of the Pearl (1888) referred...
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  • equity, and a justice system that would convict white criminals. Louis Diston Powles, an English barrister, was in 1886 brought in as an itinerant judge...
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    Spirit and Other Poems (1850). His second daughter Catherine married Louis Diston Powles. List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador O'Byrne, William Richard...
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