Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe

The Powys family lived at Hardwick House near Whitchurch-on-Thames which they had inherited some generations earlier from a marriage with the heiress to the Lybbes who had been its owners.

[2] Philip Lybbe died aged 79 at The Den, Patcham, Sussex and was buried at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Whitchurch on Thames.

My father was a very good oarsman at St John's, Oxford, and put me to work going down in the boat to Mapledurham church on Sunday afternoons".

[5] Philip Powys married Ann Phillis Greenwood at Tilehurst, Berkshire on 11 June 1844 and they had five children, all surnamed Powys; there was no divorce between Philip and Ann.

Around 1862 he began a relationship with Fanny Worth; they had three children, all surnamed Lybbe.