Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford


Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford 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. He married Henrietta Maria Vernon Atherton of Atherton Hall, Leigh on 5 December 1797 at Penwortham, Lancashire and they had twelve children.
ChildBirthDeath
Thomas Atherton Powys18011861
Robert Vernon Powys18021854
Horatio Powys18051877
Atherton Legh Powys18091886
Henry Littleton Powys18121863
Charles Powys18131897
Henrietta Maria PowysUnknown1870
Eleanor Powys18001880
Mary Powys18041883
Elizabeth Atherton Powys18071891
Frances Hester PowysUnknown1840
Jane Lucy Powys18101905

Henrietta Maria Atherton 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. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire on 9 May 1803.
Thomas died at Grosvenor Place on 4 July 1825 and was buried on 15 July 1835, at Achurch, Northamptonshire. His fifth Son Henry Littleton Powys inherited Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire.