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 Elizabeth Powys (née Brandling).

He inherited the Lilford barony in 1896 upon the death of his father, along with the Lilford Hall, Bank Hall and Bewsey estates.

Powys was educated at Harrow School, and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1886. On 29 July 1922, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire.

Powys played cricket for Northamptonshire in 1911, making a single first-class appearance against the touring India national cricket team at the County Ground, Northampton.

Family He married Milly Isabella Louisa Soltau-Symons, a daughter of George William Culme Soltau Symons of Chaddlewood, Lady Lilford died on 8 April 1940 at Oundle. He died in Kettering on 17 December 1945 and was buried on 21 December 1945 at St Peters Church, Lilford, Northamptonshire. Their only child, Thomas Atherton Powys (8 May 1896 – 3 August 1909), died aged 13 during an operation for adenoids.

The estates and Lilford barony passed to Stephen Powys, who was the godson of Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford, and adoptive brother of Lord Lilford.