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 Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford (4 May 1743 – 26 January 1800) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1797 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lilford. Biography Powys was the eldest son of Thomas Powys of ...

and Mary Mann of

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 ...

. He succeeded his father as

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in 1800. He was educated at

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and

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(1794). He married Henrietta Maria Vernon Atherton of

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on 5 December 1797 at

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and they had twelve children.Tim Powys-Lyb (2011) "Thomas Powys Lord Lilford", http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps01/ps01_143.html Henrietta Maria Atherton (née Legh) inherited

Bank Hall Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Bretherton, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and is at the centre of a private estate, surrounded by parkland. The hall was built on the site of an older house in 1608 by the Banastres ...

which had come to her mother from a first cousin,

George Anthony Legh Keck Colonel George Anthony Legh-Keck (1774–1860) was a British MP in the Georgian era who owned landed estates in Leicestershire and Lancashire. Early life Legh-Keck was born at Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire, the only surviving son of Anth ...

and the Atherton Hall via her father

Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym (c.1741–1783) was a British country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780. Gwillym was the second son of Robert Gwillym of Langstone, Herefordshire and his wife Elizabeth ...

. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire on 9 May 1803. Thomas died at

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on 4 July 1825 and was buried on 15 July 1835, at

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. His fifth Son Henry Littleton Powys inherited Stoughton Grange,

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