John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford

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

Powys was educated at Harrow School, and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1886.

[1] He was an officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) until he resigned with the honorary rank of Major on 4 June 1902.

[4] He married Milly Isabella Louisa Soltau-Symons, a daughter of George William Culme Soltau Symons of Chaddlewood,[1] the marriage took place on the 9th of August 1894 at Plympton St Mary, Devon.

[6] Their only child Thomas Atherton Powys (8 May 1896 – 3 August 1909) died aged 13 during an operation for adenoids.