Enoch powell brief biography of mahatma

100 YEARS ON

The sixteenth of June 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most contentious, loathed and yet revered members of the Intelligence Corps.

Enoch Powell was born in Stetchford, Birmingham where he lived for the first six years of his life before moving to Kings Norton in 1918, where he lived until 1930. He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell (1872–1956), a primary school headmaster, and his wife, Ellen Mary (1886–1953).

Ellen was the daughter of Henry Breese, a Liverpool policeman and his wife Eliza, who had given up her own teaching career after marrying. The Powells were of Welsh descent, having moved to the Black Country during the early 19th century.

Powell was a pupil at King’s Norton Boys’ School before moving to King Edward’s School, Birmingham where he studied classics which undoubtedly was the source of his infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech (an allusion to a line from Virgil’s Aeneid “As