Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford

Thomas Atherton Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford (2 December 1801-15 March 1861), was a British peer and Whig politician.

Lilford was the son of Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford, and Henrietta Maria Atherton. He succeeded his father as second Baron in 1825. In 1837 he was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne, a post he held until the government fell in August 1841. He never returned to office.

Lord Lilford married the Hon. Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, in 1830. They had ten children. In 1860, he inherited the jacobean mansion of Bank Hall in Bretherton, Lancashire upon the death of his brother-in-law George Anthony Legh Keck. Unfortunately, a year after his inheritance, Lord Lilford died in March 1861, aged 59, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Thomas, who became a prominent ornithologist. Lady Lilford died in 1891.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]


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