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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Samuel Powell
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Samuel Norman Powell
| birth_date = after 18 March 1878
| birth_place = [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date = 18 March 1931 (aged 53)
| death_place = at sea aboard the {{SS|Margha}}, off the coast of [[Jersey]]
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1905/06–1907/08
| umpire = true
| fcumpired = 1
| umpfcdebutyr = 1907
| umpfclastyr =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 49
| bat avg1 = 9.80
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 32
| deliveries1 = 120
| wickets1 = 1
| bowl avg1 = 64.00
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 1/60
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 12 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/samuel-powell-32472 Cricinfo
}}

'''Samuel Norman Powell''' (after March 1878 – 18 March 1931) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]].

Powell was born in 1878 at [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]]. He was employed in [[British India]] in a paper manufacturing business in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]].<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004833/19110616/051/0003|title=Erring wife's plea|work=[[The Daily News (UK)|Morning Leader]]|location=[[London]]|page=3|date=16 June 1911|access-date=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> He played [[first-class cricket]] in India for the [[Europeans cricket team]], making his debut against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] in the 1905–06 [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Match]]. Two further appearances followed against the same opposition in the 1907–08 Bombay Triangular and Bombay Presidency matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14351/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Samuel Powell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In his three first-class matches, he scored 49 runs with a highest score of 32,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14351/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Samuel Powell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> in addition to taking a single wicket.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14351/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Samuel Powell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He also stood as [[umpire (cricket)|umpire]] in a first-class fixture between the Europeans and the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] in the 1906–07 Bombay Presidency Match.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14351/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|title=Samuel Powell as Umpire in First-Class Matches|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In June 1911, he undertook divorce proceedings against his wife, for her infidelity with his principal assistant Wilfred Kenyon Haley. Proceedings ended with Powell securing custody of his three children.<ref name="NEWS"/> Whilst returning home on the {{SS|Margha}} in March 1931, Powell died suddenly aboard when the ship was off the coast of [[Jersey]]. Having remarried, his wife came to meet him at [[Plymouth]], only to discover Powell's death; only days previously, he had written to her from [[Marseille]] informing her he was on his way home from India.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19310323/091/0008|title=Tragedy for wife|work=[[Western Morning News]]|location=[[Plymouth]]|page=8|date=23 March 1931|access-date=12 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=32472}}

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[[Category:1878 births]]
[[Category:1931 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]]
[[Category:People from Chelsea, London]]
[[Category:Papermakers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:English cricket umpires]]
[[Category:People who died at sea]]

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