Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys

Thomas Powys 2nd Baron Lilford (portrait by Henry William Pickersgill)

Thomas Powys 2nd Baron Lilford (portrait by Henry William Pickersgill)
Born 8 April 1775
Lilford Hall
Died 4 July 1825 (1825-07-05) (aged 50)
Nationality British
Other names Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford
Known for 2nd Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford (8 April 1775 – 4 July 1825) was a British peer. He was the son of Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford and Mary Mann of Lilford Hall. He succeeded his father as Baron Lilford in 1800. He was educated at Eton College, St John's College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn (1794). He married Henrietta Maria Vernon Atherton of Atherton Hall, Leigh on 5 December 1797 at Penwortham, Lancashire and they had twelve children.[1]

Child Birth Death
Thomas Atherton Powys 1801 1861
Robert Vernon Powys 1802 1854
Horatio Powys 1805 1877
Atherton Legh Powys 1809 1886
Henry Littleton Powys 1812 1863
Charles Powys 1813 1897
Henrietta Maria Powys Unknown 1870
Eleanor Powys 1800 1880
Mary Powys 1804 1883
Elizabeth Atherton Powys 1807 1891
Frances Hester Powys Unknown 1840
Jane Lucy Powys 1810 1905

Henrietta Maria Atherton (née Legh) inherited Bank Hall which had come to her mother from a first cousin, George Anthony Legh Keck and the Atherton Hall via her father Robert Vernon Atherton. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire on 9 May 1803.[2] Thomas died at Grosvenor Place on 4 July 1825 and was buried on 15 July 1835, at Achurch, Northamptonshire.[1] His fifth Son Henry Littleton Powys inherited Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire.[3]

Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Powys
Baron Lilford
1800–1825
Succeeded by
Thomas Atherton Powys

References

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