Daily Gleaner, April 20, 1916
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I have so far been unable to find anything on Dr
Powell's parents or family; however, since he was
born in St Elizabeth it may not be too
unacceptable to suggest that he may have come
from the same roots as Colin Powell.
Ferdinand Charles Hungerford Powell
Munro and Dickenson School, Potsdam,
and University College, Kingston
WHO’S WHO IN JAMAICA 1916
OBITUARIES
Ferdinand Charles Hungerford Powell was born in St. Elizabeth in 1881. He got his early education at Potsdam School. He won the Jamaica Scholarship in 1900 and went to King's College, London. He returned to Jamaica about 1907 and was appointed Acting D.M.O. for Linstead, and later Morant Bay, but subsequently went into private practice at Port Maria. He was also D.M.O. for Manchioneal but resigned and opened offices in East Parade, Kingston. He died at the Public Hospital, Kingston, on the 19th April, 1916.
L.S.A, London. [Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.]
'In that year [1898] 10 senior boys won first class honours, one of whom, F C H Powell of Potsdam School, came out top in the whole examination and won the prize of £12 awarded by the Syndicate. In 1898, in fact, Jamaica accounted for about one-quarter of the total overseas entry. . . . F C H Powell, who had topped the Cambridge list in 1898, won [the Jamaica Scholarship] in 1900.'
Public Examinations in England, 1850-1900, John Roach, 1971, p 174
ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS.
The following scholarships have been awarded for 1900:
King's College and Hospital.
Sambrooke Medical Exhibition (Science): F. C. H. Powell, £60.
Aug. 22, 1903
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
The following candidates have passed the Intermediate Examination in Medicine.
Entire Examination. - First Division: F. C. H. Powell, King's College;
From
entries in the records at Ellis Island, of Dr Powell passing through on
his way to and from the UK in 1906-7, it is clear that he was a
Coloured Jamaican, as he would have been described then, since his
complexion is recorded as 'brown' and 'dark'.
