| AdminHistory | Littleton Alfred Powys (1902-1954), born on 30 August 1902 at East Preston, Sussex, was the only child of John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) and Margaret Alice Lyon (1874-1947). He followed family tradition attending Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was ordained as a priest in 1927, serving as vice-principal at St Stephen’s House, Oxford (1930-1936), and then as Rector of Wiston in West Sussex. During the war he served as Chaplain and later attended Pontifical Beda College in Rome before becoming an ordained Roman Catholic priest in 1944, serving as assistant priest at St John's RC church, Bath from 1944-1954. He died of a muscle wasting disease, triggered by a motorcycle accident, on 16 February 1954. His poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ was published posthumously, at the request of his uncle Littleton Charles Powys, in The Shirburnian in Summer 1954. A limited edition of 100 copies of the poem was also published in 1954. |