John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford (12 January 1863 – 17 December 1945), was a British peer and cricketer.

Biography

Powys was born at

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 ...

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, the son of

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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, ...

, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Powys (née Brandling). He inherited the Lilford barony in 1896 upon the death of his father, along with the Lilford Hall,

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and Bewsey estates. Powys was educated at

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, and graduated from

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, in 1886. He was an officer in the 3rd (

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) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) until he resigned with the honorary rank of

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on 4 June 1902. On 29 July 1922, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

. Powys played

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for

in 1911, making a single first-class appearance against the touring

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at the

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Family

He married Milly Isabella Louisa Soltau-Symons, a daughter of George William Culme Soltau Symons of Chaddlewood, the marriage took place on 9 August 1894 at Plympton St Mary,

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. The Lilfords used the Bank Hall estate as a holiday home until 1898. Lady Lilford died on 8 April 1940 at

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. He died in Kettering on 17 December 1945 and was buried on 21 December 1945 at St Peters Church, Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Northamptonshire. Their only child, Thomas Atherton Powys (8 May 1896 – 3 August 1909), died aged 13 during an operation for

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s. The estates and Lilford barony passed to Stephen Powys, who was the godson of

, and adoptive brother of Lord Lilford.Tim Powys-Lybbe (2011) "Thomas Littleton Powys Lord Lilford", http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps09/ps09_381.html

References

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