Baron Lilford, of Lilford in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain

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. It was created in 1797 for Thomas Powys

Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford

Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Lilford was elected to the House of Commons for Northamptonshire in 1774, a seat he held until 1797. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lilford, of Lilford in the County of Northampton. The family seat...

, who had previously represented Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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. His grandson, the third Baron, served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip) from 1837 to 1841 in the Whig administration

Whig Government 1835-1841

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 of Lord Melbourne

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron. He was an ornithologist. On the death of his younger son, the sixth Baron (who succeeded his elder brother), in 1949, the line of the eldest son of the second Baron failed. The late Baron was succeeded by his second cousin once removed, the seventh Baron. He was the great-great-grandson of the Hon. Robert Vernon Powys, second son of the second Baron. the title is held by his only son, the eighth Baron, who succeeded in 2005. The family seat until the 1990s was Lilford Hall

Lilford Hall

Lilford Hall is a Grade 1 listed stately 100-room home having a Jacobean exterior and Georgian interior with a floor area, located in the eastern part of the County of Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom, south of Oundle and north of Thrapston. A Grade 1 listed building is considered by the UK...

 in Northamptonshire.

Barons Lilford (1797)

• Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford
  Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford
  Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Lilford was elected to the House of Commons for Northamptonshire in 1774, a seat he held until 1797. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lilford, of Lilford in the County of Northampton. The family seat...
  
   (1743–1800)
• Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford (1775–1825)
• Thomas Atherton Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford
  Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford
  Thomas Atherton Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford , was a British peer and Whig politician.Lilford was the son of Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford, and Henrietta Maria Atherton of Atherton Hall. He succeeded his father as second Baron in 1825...
  
   (1801–1861)
• Thomas Lyttelton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833–1896)
• John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford (1863–1945)
• Stephen Powys, 6th Baron Lilford (1869–1949)
• George Vernon Powys, 7th Baron Lilford (1931–2005)
• Mark Vernon Powys, 8th Baron Lilford (b. 1975)