Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe
British politician; (1819-1897)
Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe (12 June 1818 – 12 September 1897) was an English rower, barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1859 and 1865.
Life
He was born as Powys at Broomfield House, Southgate, Middlesex, the son of Henry Philip Powys and his wife Julia Barrington. 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. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1836, where he graduated B.A. in 1839 and M.A. in 1843.
Philip Powys became a barrister and was J.P. for Oxfordshire. At the 1859 general election, Powys was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Newport Isle of Wight. In a law case reported in the Reading Mercury of 15 November 1862, it was reported that he was lame and always walked with a heavy stick, with which he was said to have assaulted a defaulting tenant.
Powys obtained a Royal Licence to change his name on 18 February 1863. Subsequently he used the final name Lybbe. He held his seat in parliament until the 1865 general election.
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