Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford DL (8 April 1775 – 4 July 1825) was a British peer.

Early life

He was the son of Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford and Mary Mann of Lilford Hall.

He was educated at Eton College, St John's College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn (1794).

Career

He succeeded his father as Baron Lilford in 1800.

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire on 9 May 1803.

Personal life

On 5 December 1797 at Penwortham, Lancashire, he married Henrietta Maria Vernon Atherton of Atherton Hall, Leigh . 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 Gwillym. Together, they had twelve children:

• Thomas Atherton Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford (1801–1861), who married Hon. Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Henry Fox, 3rd Baron Holland and Elizabeth Vassall, in 1830.
• Hon. Robert Vernon Powys (1802–1854), who married Jane Beckett, daughter of William Beckett, in 1825.
• Hon. Horatio Powys (1805–1877)
• Hon. Atherton Legh Powys (1809–1886)
• Hon. Henry Littleton Powys (1812–1863), who inherited Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire; he married Maria Gore, a daughter of Adm. Sir John Gore.
• Hon. Charles Powys (1813–1897)
• Hon. Henrietta Maria Powys (d. 1870)
• Hon. Eleanor Powys (1800–1880)
• Hon. Mary Powys (1804–1883)
• Hon. Elizabeth Atherton Powys (1807–1891)
• Hon. Frances Hester Powys (d. 1840)
• Hon. Jane Lucy Powys (1810–1905)

Lord Lilford died at Grosvenor Place on 4 July 1825 and was buried on 15 July 1835, at Achurch, Northamptonshire.

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