Cynthia Lennon was John Lennon’s first wife and Julian Lennon’s mother. She attended Liverpool College of Art, where Lennon was also a student, after being born in Blackpool and raised in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula.
Powell and Lennon began dating after meeting in a calligraphy class. Powell rented his bedroom at 251 Menlove Avenue in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton from his aunt and legal guardian, Mimi Smith, while Lennon was performing with the Beatles in Hamburg.
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Powell’s father died at the age of 16 after a long battle with lung cancer. Powell told her before he died that she would have to work to support her mother and would not be able to attend art school.
Powell’s mother rented out a room to four apprentice electricians in order for her to receive an education. Powell was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art in September 1957. She and Lennon both took lettering classes while studying graphics.
Powell and Lennon married in August 1962 after Powell became pregnant, and the couple lived at Kenwood in Weybridge from 1964 to 1968, where she kept house and participated in a London-based social life with Lennon.
In 1968, Lennon abandoned her for Japanese artist Yoko Ono, resulting in the couple’s divorce being granted legally in November 1968 on the grounds of adultery.
