Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys
Born 4 May 1743
Died 26 January 1800
Nationality British
Other names Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford
Known for 1st Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford (4 May 1743 – 26 January 1800) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Career

Lilford attended Eton College from 1755-1759 and in 1760 was admitted as fellow-commoner to King's College, Cambridge. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire from 1768-1769.

Lilford was elected to the House of Commons for Northamptonshire in 1774, a seat he held until 1797. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lilford, of Lilford in the County of Northampton.[1] The family seat was Lilford Hall, first acquired by his great-grandfather, the judge, Thomas Powys.[2]

Personal life

Lord Lilford married Mary, daughter of Galfridus Mann, in 1777 and had six sons and seven daughters

Child Birth Death
Thomas Powys 1775 1825
Horace Powys 1788 (Died as Infant) (1788),
Littleton Powys 1781 1842
Frederick Powys 1782 1850
Charles Powys 1784 1804
Henry Powys Unknown 1812
Eleanor Powys 1773 1854
Lucy Powys Unknown 1847
Emily Powys Unknown 1844
Caroline Powys 1787 1813
Anne Powys and Sophia Powys (Twins) Unknown Anne 1835 Sophia 1847
Louisa Horatia Powys 1800 1871

In 1770 he sold Henley Hall to Ralph Knight, who reconstructed the house. He died in January 1800, at 56, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Thomas Powys.[3] Lady Lilford died in 1823.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Sir John Dolben
Lucy Knightly
Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire
with Lucy Knightly 1774–1784
Sir James Langham 1784–1790
Francis Dickins 1790–1797

1774–1797
Succeeded by
Francis Dickins
William Ralph Cartwright
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
New Creation
Baron Lilford
1797-1800
Succeeded by
Thomas Powys

Notes

  1. The London Gazette: no. 14052. p. 968. 7 October 1797.
  2. Tim Powys-Lybbe (2010) "Thomas Powys Lord Lilford", http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps01/ps01_141.html
  3. Tim Powys-Lybbe (2010) "Thomas Powys Lord Lilford", http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps01/ps01_141.html

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