Hugh Powell (died 1587) was an English politician.
He was the son of John or Howell Powell of Breconshire and was educated at Oxford University (1559).
He was the Registrar for the Salisbury diocese from 1562 to 1584. He was appointed High Sheriff of Breconshire for 1582–83. He was elected Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Devizes in 1563 and for Old Sarum in 1572.
He married Eleanor, the daughter of John Corriatt of Salisbury. They had no children.
Richard Neile was an English churchman, bishop successively of six English dioceses, more than any other man, including the Archdiocese of York from 1631 until his death. He was involved in the last burning at the stake for heresy in England, that of the Arian Edward Wightman in 1612.
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer.
John Colville, Scottish clergyman, judge, politician and author, was the son of Robert Colville of Cleish, in Kinross.
Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood PC, styled Lord Hugh Cecil until 1941, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 April 1859 for the Welsh politician Sir Charles Morgan, 3rd Baronet, who had earlier represented Brecon in Parliament. His eldest son, Charles Rodney Morgan, sat as Member of Parliament for Brecon, but predeceased his father. Lord Tredegar was therefore succeeded by his second son, the second Baron.
Robert Tounson — also seen as “Townson” and “Toulson” — was Dean of Westminster from 1617 to 1620, and later Bishop of Salisbury from 1620 to 1621. He attended Sir Walter Raleigh at his execution, and wrote afterwards of how Raleigh had behaved on that occasion.
The 1965 Salisbury by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Salisbury in Wiltshire on 4 February 1965. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Michael Hamilton.
Thomas Morgan was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1723 to 1769.
John Capon, aliasJohn Salcot was a Benedictine monk who became bishop of Bangor, then bishop of Salisbury under Henry VIII. He is often referred to as John Salcot alias Capon.
This is a list of High Sheriffs of Brecknockshire or Breconshire.
Thomas Powell was a Welsh cleric and writer.
John Bridges (1536–1618) was an English bishop.
Sir John Prise (1501/2–1555) was a Welsh public notary, who acted as a royal agent and visitor of the monasteries. He was also a scholar, associated with the first Welsh printed publication Yn y lhyvyr hwnn. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Breconshire in 1547; Hereford October 1553; Ludlow April 1554; and Ludgershall November 1554.
Sir Robert Knollys KB was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1572 and 1611.
William FitzHugh, 4th Baron FitzHugh was an English nobleman and Member of Parliament.
Giles Estcourt, was an English politician.
Sir Edward Williams (1659–1721) of Gwernyfed, Breconshire, was a British politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1697 and 1708 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1721.