Stephen Powys, 6th Baron Lilford (8 March 1869 – 19 September 1949), was a British peer. Powys was the third son of

Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (18 March 1833 – 17 June 1896), was a British aristocrat and ornithologist. Life Lilford was the eldest son of Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford, and Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3 ...

, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Brandling. His birth was registered a month after he was born by his father and gave his parents as Thomas Littleton Lord Lilford and Emma Elizabeth Lilford. Regrettably there was no space on the form to enter his surname, which was, as his parents had been, Powys; so the index gave him his father's title name as his surname. He never used the surname of Lilford, he may not even have known that was what was implicit in his birth certificate, though he did become Lord Lilford himself in later life. There is no evidence to show that he was adopted, the evidence is merely that of confusion in the mind of the registrars at the time of registration. Following the death of his mother Emma in 1884, his father remarried Clementina Georgina Baillie-Hamilton in 1885 in Cookham, Berkshire. He was educated at Sunningdale School,

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

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and the

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. In 1945, he inherited the title of 6th Baron Lilford from his full brother

John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford (12 January 1863 – 17 December 1945), was a British peer and cricketer. Biography Powys was born at Lilford Hall, Northamptonshire, the son of ornithologist Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford, and his wife Emma El ...

, but died in 1949 at

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. There is a portrait in the

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, of Stephen Powys which dates from 1890. His estates, which included the

Lilford Hall Lilford Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean stately home in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. The 100-room house is located in the eastern part of the county, south of Oundle and north of Thrapston. History It was started in 1495 as a Tudor ...

Estate in Northamptonshire,

Bank Hall Estate The Bank Hall Estate is the demesne of the Jacobean mansion house of Bank Hall, including much of land around the village of Bretherton, which is owned by the Lilford Trust. History The Estate began when the Banastre family moved to Lancashire f ...

in Lancashire, Bewsey Estate in Cheshire, and his fathers residence in Mayfair, and the title of Baron Lilford passed to George Vernon Powys (his second cousin twice removed) as Stephen never married or had children.Tim Powys-Lybbe (2011) "Stephen Powys Lord Lilford", http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps09/ps09_420.html

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lilford, Stephen Powys, 6th Baron 1869 births 1949 deaths Stephen Place of birth missing People educated at Sunningdale School People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge