Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Birth12 Jun 1818, Broomfield House, Southgate, Middx
Death12 Sep 1897, The Den, Patcham, Sussex
Burial16 Sep 1897, St Mary the Virgin, Whitchurch, Oxon
General1st s. Barrister, JP for Oxon, MP for Newport IOW 1859-65.
EducationEton & Balliol, Oxon, matric 1836, MA: ?.
FatherHenry Philip Powys (1791-1859)
MotherJulia Barrington (1795-1821)
Notes for Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe (born POWYS)
Martin P-L writes:

1836   matriculated at Balliol Coll.
1839 (TFPL ex Rowing Biographies): In 1839 Powys rowed number 7 in the Oxford boat in the Boat Race.
1839   entered Inner Temple on 14 Jan, his address was Balliol, Oxon and he was recorded as the eldest son with his father living at Hardwick House, Oxfordshire.
1843    Took his MA on the Thurs before April 1st.
1843   called to Inner Temple Bar on 5th May.  He worked in the Oxford circuit, became a J.P.
1844   married Anne, dau. of Thos. Greenwood of Turners Court, Wallingford.
1845   Henry Philip born, in 9 Somers Place, Hyde Park.  He sadly died the same year, and was buried in Weldon Chapel Yard, Southgate.
1848-56   They had 4 more children: Philip Barrington, Julia, Edith, Wm. Reginald.
He outlived all his sons.
1859-65  M.P. for Newport I.o.W.
18 Feb 1863  Obtained royal licence to retake name of Lybbe, effectively to incorporate it in the surname.

Although he owned both Hardwick and Bloomfield, I don't think he ever lived at either, once he had grown up.  In 1845, as we have seen, he was living in Hyde Park.  Later he lived in Holly Copse, ex-King Charles Inn, on the Hardwick estate.  In 1885 he lived at 47 Tregunter Rd., London S.W.
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1818 Whitchurch Baptism Register:
         "1818 Sep 28   POWYS   Philip Lybbe s. Henry Philip, gent & Julia of Southgate in the Parish of Edmonton privately baptised at Edmonton, Middx 12th June"
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Notes by TFPL, March 1999 on:

In 1865 the first of his three daughters, Amy, to Fanny Worth was born. (Where?)
In 1866, Mabel was born. (Where?)
In 1868 he wrote, and in 1869 they were published, two short books, probably allegorical of his life, called: "HEC's First and Second of October at Holly Copse" and "The Lay of the Sheriff".  I have seen one copy of the former that is inscribed by him to his then infant daughter Amy.
1st Jan 1870: he wrote a letter with the address of Holly Copse, Reading, which was on the Hardwick estate.
13th Jan 1870: He wrote a letter from 47 Tregunter Road: so when did he acquire 47, Tregunter Rd?
In 1870, he wrote a new will, leaving all to Fanny Worth at Tregunter Road, where they were all living.
In 1872 Helen was born.
In the 1881 census he called himself, Fanny and the three daughters all by the name of Lybbe only.
On 21 & 26 Nov 1883 & 29 Nov 1885, Palmer's Index to the Times reports a Civil Action of Lybbe v. Hart. No details as yet, but the "Lybbe" has to be him.  It was, but the case was very dull, about some hay on the land of a deceased farmer called Hart.
In 2nd qtr of 1885 Mabel had married Herbert Bowker.  Can't find any marriage of the other two daughters.
Fanny Worth was an executor and was left at least £34,000 in trust for her and her daughters.  Presumably it was she and/or the other executors who had him buried at Whitchurch in the family crypt in the churchyard.
By 1887 he had had set up the "Oxford" and "Middlesex" trusts for the benefit of his only surviving son William Reginald.
In 1889 he was living at "The Den" in Brighton; except for Mabel, who was nearby with her family (husband and son, both called Herbert), I think all his family were with him.

RCLP-L, in his testament, says that his grandparents separated in 1869.  Possible but he also said that the Royal Licence for the name change was in 1869 which is incorrect, it was 18th February 1863.  Personally I reckon the separation has to have been around 1863.

During all this Ann Phyllis called herself, and was called by him, Ann Phyllis Powys.  It sounds as if he changed his name when they separated, or possibly when he got the Royal Licence; I am increasingly certain he changed his surname precisely to disassociate himself from Ann Phyllis..  He was certainly known in the last 10 years of his life as "Mr Lybbe"; in the copy of his will and the four codicils, there was no hyphen before the Lybbe.  He also appears as Mr Lybbe in the 1873 registers of owners of Land for Middx, Oxon and Berks.
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In the Times of 19th March 1863 there is this announcement in the Personal Column on the front page:

“The Queen has been pleased to grant unto PHILIP LYBBE POWYS, of Hardwick-house, in the parish of Whitchurch, in the county of Oxford, of St Thomas’s, East Cowes, in the isle of Wight, and of Broomfield-house, Southgate, in the parish of Edmonton, in the country of Middlesex, Esq., representative in Parliament for the borough of Newport in the Isle of Wight, her Royal license and authority, that he and his issue may take and henceforth USE the SURNAME of LYBBE in addition to and after that of Powys, and to command that the said Royal concession and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty’s College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.”
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Palmers Index to The Times reports these cases, which must be him:
on 21 Mar 1883 CIVIL ACTIONS Lybbe v . Hart p.4, col. a
on 26 Nov 1883 CIVIL ACTIONS Lybbe v . Hart p.3, col. e
on 25 Jan 1885 CIVIL ACTIONS Lybbe v . Hart p.3, col. d
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TFPL: Dec 2001: The wording of the RL is:
"... the petitioner most humbly prays Our Royal Licence and Authority that he and his issue may take and henceforth use the surname of Lybbe in addition to and after that of Powys. ... We ... have granted ... that he and his issue may take and henceforth use the surname of Lybbe in addition to and after that of Powys..."
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TFPL, May 2002: In the 1861 the family was living at St Thomas' Cowes and the household was listed as:

Parish of Whippingham, St Thomas's House
Name and Surname  Relation to Head  Condition  Age M Age F  Rank, etc Where born
Philip Lybbe  POWYS,     Head,  Marr,   42,  M. P. Land proprietor,  Middlesex Southgate.
Annie P       POWYS,     Wife,  Marr, , 35,                          Berks Wallingford
Philip B L    POWYS,     Son,   ,       12,  Scholar,                Middlesex, St Johns Paddington
Julia E       POWYS,     Daur,  , ,     10,  Scholar,                Berks Tilehurst
Edith M       POWYS,     Daur,  , ,      7,  Scholar,                Middlesex St John Paddington
William R L   POWYS,     Son,   ,        4,  ,                       Hants, Bournemouth
Mary A        EVANS [?], Serv,  Un, ,   48,  Nurse,                  Middlesex London
Henrietta     PARSONS,   Serv,  Un, ,   45,  Lady's Maid,            Berks Reading
Elizabeth     Corbin,    Serv,  Un, ,   34,  Cook,                   Wiltshire, Taunton [?]
Jane          Swetland,  Serv,  Un, ,   28,  Housemaid,              Dorset, Kinson [?]
Helen         Pierce,    Serv.  Un,     24,  Under Nurse,            Berks Roundbury
Cornelius     Downe,     Serv,  Marr,   26,  Footman.                Hants Northwood
Ellen         Taylor,    Serv,  Un, ,   18,  Scullaery Maid,         Hants Burley.

The next entry on the census was "The Lodge" where a butler, his wife and two young daughters lived; not sure if this was part of St Thomas's.  Similarly for "Hatwoods" after that where there was a garden labourer and his wife.

In the 1851 census, Jane E Barrington lived at St Thomas's.

In the 1871 census, Mary Evans and Ellen Taylor were both still at St Thomas's, on their own.
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I have a printed copy of the The Royal Yacht Squadron List of August 1861 in which there is the following member with his yacht:
No 165 ... Powys, Lybbe Esq., M.P. ... Anaconda ... sch. ... 101 tons... Cowes

There were 204 members in the list, the later ones all with yachts, the earlier one (ie older) only half had yachts.

Additionally he and all his yachts were in “The Royal Yacht Squadron”, a history of same, by Montague Guest and William Boulton, pub John Murray in 1902.  See p. 426 for his list:

LYBBE-POWYS, P.L. Esq., M.P.
1st yr Yacht Member Port of Yacht Member
Elected on list on list & yachts Registry off list off list


As P.L.Powys esq
1858 Anaconda, Sch 101   Portsmouth   1862
1862 Zoe, sch 55         Southampton  1862

As P.Lybbe-Powys esq.
1863 Anaconda, sch 161   Southampton  1863
1863 Zoe, sch 88         Southampton  1863
1867 Ruby Queen, sch 130 Southampton  1868
1867 Panther, sch 100    Southampton  1870

In 1859 he was elected to the committee of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club (IoW Observer 28 May 1859, p. 2).
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2004 and 2005, TFPL: In October 1862, there was a striking series of events, starting with an as yet unseen article by PLPL in the Standard newspaper,  This provoked a reply from, apparently, a pupil at Eton, on the 21st October 1862:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES
Sir,--Having latelyOct read, in the columns of the Standard, a most savage and unprovoked attacked upon the masters of Eton College, made by Mr Philip Lybbe Powys M.P. for Newport, which would seem at first sight to bring down great discredit upon them, I think it is but right for me, being, as I am, an Etonian, to repudiate the charges brought against them, which I consider to be not only unfounded but simply untrue.  What Mr Powys means by saying that the school is in a “pretty fix at present” it is hard to conceive.  The school is at present in a most flourishing condition and as free from bullying propensities as any school in the kingdom, its excellent condition is mainly attributable to the excellent management of the head master and tutors, who have always most assiduously put a stop to every kind of bullying and oppression, and I may candidly state that during the six years during which I have been at Eton there has been but one single case of real hard bullying, and I need scarcely aadd that it was most promptly and severely punished.  I happen to be acquainted with the circumstances of Mr Powys’ sons’s case, and I can safely assert that he was not bullied at all, and the house in which he was is one of the best conducted in College.  But if he expected to be fondled and pampered at Eton as he probably was at home, it would have been far better for him had he remained at home in the nursery, for which he was far more fit than for a public school.
  I am, Sir, yours &c.,
  Eton College, Oct 19.          ETONIENSIS
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On 23rd October 1862 PLPL replied to the Times:

"Sir, - I have just read the letter signed "Etonensis" in your journal of to-day. reflecting on a letter of mine which appeared in the Standard, and request you to insert in your next impression, this the sole answer I shall give to any correspondents, either with or without names, on this subject.

"Had I been pleased I should have given the names of the boys who bullied my son, and of the tutor from whose house I removed him.

"Is striking a boy on his head when lying sick on his bed with measles bullying or not?  Are daily - nay hourly, acts of beating abd kicking acts of bullying or not?  For the sake of the boys' parents I refrained from giving names.

"I can and will prove every iota of my statement before the Royal Commission, perhaps in the conviction of your correspondent (he might as well have given his name), who may live in Eton, but I am confident was never either a Colleger or an Oppidan at Eton,

"    I am, Sir, yours obediently
         PHILIP LYBBE POWYS, M.P.
Bellevue Hotle, Bournemouth, Oct 21.

"*** The writer of this silly letter may rest assured that our correspondent is a gentleman now being eduated at Eton College."
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Finally on October 25th 1862 The Times published a second, replying letter from Eton:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES
Sir,--I do not, it is true, board at the same house as did Mr Powys’s son, neither did I see much of him while he was at Eton.  I am, however, perfectly acquainted with the circumstances which led to his removal from the school.
  Mr Powys writes,--”Is striking a boy on the head when lying sick on his bed with measles bullying or not?  Are daily and hourly acts of beating and kicking acts of bullying or not!”
  These questions I conceive to be made out of harmless curiosity, so I will content myself with saying in answer that the actions alluded to can be classed under the head of bullying, and oppression of a kind to which no Etonian in my recollection ever had to submit.
  If my conception, however, be a false one, and if Mr Powys believes that his son was hit while ill in bed, and had to suffer hourly beatings and kickings, he is most grievously mistaken.  His son had to put up with no more rough usage than any other boy in the school.  In conclusion, I should be inclined to think, judging from the style of Mr. Powys’s letters, that if he was ever at Eton himself, either as Colleger or Oppidan, he certainly never got higher in the school than the fourth form.
  Eton College, Oct 23.           ETONIENSIS.
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The above response of the Editor may indicate a similar response from his wider acquaintances.  If so this may just have demoralised him, leading to the change of name within four months, and which change must have been initiated very soon after this letter, the desertion of his wife and the setting up home with a lady who may well have been able to give him devoted attention.  I wonder...

(Philip Barrington Powys, the son concerned was about 14 years old at the time of this incident.  I do not know any more about him between then and his death from rheumatism and heart problems at the early age of 20.)

PLPL did submit evidence to the Clarendon Royal Commission on Public Schools, which sat from 1861 to, c. 1864 and published in 1864.  A copy of the report, in 4 volumes, is in the British Library with the System Number of 0011185226. (To be followed up.)
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May 2016, TFPL: I have at last found the original letter to The Standard, written on 14th October and published on the 17th October 1862:

“TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD

“Sir,--Lord Palmerston, M.P., has been inaugurating training schools for the diocese of Winchester.  It would be well if he or someone else would inaugurate some training schools for Eton masters.  We want masters “taught to teach.”  As an old Etonian who has been obliged to take away his sone from Eton, on account of the ill-treatment he received in his tutor’s house, I feel strongly on the present position of the school.  I am told that a pretty “fix” is going on there now.  Let the authorities remove all the assistants except the Rev. Messrs. Dunford and Carter and Messrs Browning and Austen Leigh, and make a clean sweep of the mathematical people, the mathematical department being nothing but a private job.
“   Iam, Sir, your obedient servant,
        PHILIP LYBBE POWYS, M.P. for Newport,
              Isle of Wight.
“   Monkey island, Maidenhead, Oct 14.”

This led to c correspondence over the next month and a half, to be transcribed at a later date.

This led to some submissions by him to the Royal Commission on Public Schools, and a recently p;ublished report on the Commission, which sat between 1861 and 1864, has been published as:

“The Clarendon Report : English Public Schools in the Nineteenth Century”

Format Hardback | 1900 pages
Publication date 30 Jun 2005
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 1843711060
ISBN13 9781843711063

Table of contents
Volume 1 - Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues and management of certain colleges and schools and the studies pursued and instruction given therein; with an appendix and evidence (1864) 534pp;
volume 2 - appendix 436pp;
volume 3 - evidence, part I 338pp;
volume 4 - evidence, part II 604pp.

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On PLPL’s death certificate, he was " Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe" [each name on a separate line), 78 [sic], and a landed proprietor.  He died of Acute Erythemia (who?) and senile decay.  The informant was Mabel A Powys, niece, who was present at the death and of 306 Bath Street, Glasgow. (presumably Mabel Alice, dau. of William Cunliffe his half-brother, and who was to marry Dr George Ritchie Thomson a fortnight later and I wonder if there was any connection between her name and that of his and Fanny's second daughter Mabel?).
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TFPL, December 2004: I have at last found where he and Fanny were on census day 1871.  They had left behind their two daughters at Tregunter Road, where the enumerator then recorded no head of house.  The parents were at Brighton, in what looks to have been an hotel and were recorded as "head" and "wife" with the names "Philip P Lybbe" and “Fanny Lybbe".  He was 51 (recte, 52), born in Edmonton, Middlesex, and she 40 (recte, nearer 35), born in Rugby, Warwicks.

Thanks to Ancestry.com for indexing the whole of the 1871 census, enabling me to find them.
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TFPL, May 2006: I have just found in a copy of PLPL’s booklet “The Lay of the Sheriff” that it was owned, with his signature, by Rev C R Powys and he dated this (acquisition?) to 29th Sept 1897.

More interestingly below this he put two dates for his death: 12th Sept and 18th Sept 1897.  The former is that of PLPL’s death and I wonder if the latter is that of his burial at Whitchurch in the churchyard vault?  However 6 days does sound rather quick for making all the arrangements and transporting him from Hove, Sussex.  I wonder if C R Powys was involved in the arrangements for getting his half-brother to be buried there?  PLPL was the last member of the family to be buried in the vault.
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Here’s the 1881 census transcript which was the first confirmation of the whole family:

Name  Relation  Condition  Sex  Age  Birth Year  Occupation  Disability  Where Born

LYBBE, Philip     Head  M  M  62  1819  Barrister (Not In Practice)  Edmonton, Mx
LYBBE, Frances    Wife  M  F  50  1831                               Horwood, Bucks
LYBBE, Amy        Daur  S  F  16  1865                               London, Middlesex
LYBBE, Mabel      Daur  S  F  15  1866                               Middlesex
LYBBE, Helen      Daur  S  F   9  1872                               Middlesex
TANNER, Lavinia   Serv  S  F  30  1851  Parlar Maid                  Swindon, Wilts
BISHOP, Annie     Serv  S  F  20  1861  Housemaid                    Bow, Middlesex
FAIRHEAD, Martha  Serv  S  F  19  1862  Cook                         Lambeth, Surrey

RG number: RG11 Piece: 46 Folio: 78 Page: 5    

Registration District: Kensington Sub District: Brompton
EnumerationDistrict:    Ecclesiastical Parish:

Civil Parish: Kensington Municipal Borough:
Address: 47, Tregunter Rd, Kensington
County: Middlesex
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I cannot find them on the 1891 census nor can I find Mabel who may, just, have got separated from her husband who was to be found in 1891 in Colchester.
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From the London Gazette:

3 May 1959: “Crown- Office, April 30, 1859.
MEMBERS returned to serve in the PARLIAMENT summoned to be holden at Westminster, on the 31st May, 1859.
...
Borough of Newport.
Robert William Kennard, of Porchester-terrace, Middlesex, Esq.
Philip Lybbe Powys, of Saint Thomas's, East Cowes, Esq.”

3 March 1863, Issue 22713, p. 1298:   “Whitehall, February 18, 1863.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Philip Lvbbe Powys, of Hardwick House, in the parish of Whitchurch, in the county of Oxford, of St. Thomas's, East Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and of Broomfield House, Southgate, in the parish of Edmonton, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, Representative in Parliament for the borough of Newport, in the Isle of Wiglir, Her Royal Licence and authority that he and his issue may take and henceforth use the surname of Lybbe, in addition to and after that of Powys
“And to command that the said Royal concession and declaration be recorded "in Her Majesty's College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.”
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In the 1841 census he was at No 4 Furnivals Inn, City of London, occupation=Independent.  In the same premises were also three professionals, of ages from 20 (his) to 30 with a wife to the eldest and two servants, apparently mother and daughter from their names and ages.
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He was elected a fellow of the Anthropological Society of London on Jan 19th 1864 - see its Journal vol 2 of 1864, pp. xcv.
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In the transcript of the Whitchurch Burial Register, there is a note:

“Registered wrongly at Brighton as 78 years old - ? the registrar of that Parish under 1818 - by which it appears he was received into this Church Sept 1818 him having been born at Edmonton 12 June 1818 & privately baptised the same day. JS”
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That he was not living, nor dying, at Holly Copse is confirmed by a report in the Reading Mercury of Sat 12 June 1897, when four timber thieves (from his woods) were prosecuted at the instance of Henry Gillett who was wood bailiff of Holly Copse, Goring Heath.
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He was lame at the age of 44, according to a report in a civil case against him for assault (Reading Mercury, 15th November 1862).  What was not revealed was whether this was from birth or whether it was something he suffered later on.  Apparently he then walked at all times with a heavy stick.

In 1839 on the other hand he was oar No 2 of the Oxford crew in the boat race that year, he weighted 12 stones then and must have been fairly fit.  He had spent much time in his childhood rowing on the Thames up and downstream from Hardwick.  Anyhow his team won the toss but lost the race by 1 min 45 sec, quite a few lengths.  (See “One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Oxford abd Cambridge Boat Race” by Richard Burnell, pub 1979, p. 53.)

I just wonder if the claim to be lame at the age of 44 was just a fabrication to account for the heavy stick he carried?
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The above assault case was about an event on 6th October 1862 between PL Powys and a Mr Kew a tailor and one-time tenant of the former.  PLP lost his rag with Mr Kew and undoubtedly assaulted him in the King Charles pub on Goring Heath (and now apparently a Thai restaurant).  Mr Kew then sued for damages and duly won this civil case and £10.

This was another disastrous event of October 1862 for PLP, what with his article in the Standard, the correspondence on the front page of the Times and now successfully sued for assault.  Not surprising that he changed his name five months later, the which royal licence would have taken a few months to set up.

By July 1863, he seems to have calmed down as he chaired a very convivial meeting with dinner for the Dorchester, Oxon Wool Fair, (see Reading Mercury of 18th July 1863)
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On 25 Sept 1897, the Reading Mercury carried this notice of his death on p.3:

“                WHITCHURCH

“  DEATH OF MR P. L. POWYS-LYBBE --Mr P. L. Powys-Lybbe, the owner of Hardwick House, Oxfordshire, a former member of the House of Commons, has died at Brighton at the age of 77.  The eldest son of the late Mr A. [sic] P. Powys, of Hardwick House, he was born in 1818, was educated at Eton and Balliol College, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1846, joining the Oxford Circuit.  The deceased gentleman, who married, in 1844, Anne Phyllis, eldest daughter of the late Mr Thomas Greenwood, of Turner’s Court, assumed the name of Lybbe in 1863.  He was a Magistrate for Oxfordshire, and from 1859 till 1865 represented Newport in the House of Commons.”
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In 1864 this entry was in the Journal of the Anthropological Society of London:

“January 19th, 1864

... The following fellows were elected: ... Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe, Esq., M.P....”

So he was a Fellow of that Society.
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His Inner Temple record:

Powys, Philip Lybbe

Type of entity              Individual person
Parallel forms of name      Powis, Philip Lybbe
Primary address: street     Balliol College
Primary address: town       Oxford
Primary address: county     Oxfordshire
Primary address: country    England
Age                         20
Father                      Powys, Henry Philip
Father's occupation         esquire
Father's address: street    Hardwick House
Father's address: county    Oxfordshire
Father's address: country   England
Relationship                eldest son
Admission year              1839
Admission date              14-01-1839
Call year                   1843
Call date                   05-05-1843
Date of death               12-09-1897
Notes                       Died at Brighton, Sussex.
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Philip Barrington Lybbe Powys
Will notes for Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe (born POWYS)
His probabte index:

Lybbe Philip Lybbe Powys of ‘ th Den “ Dyke-road Brighton esquire died 12 September 1897  Probate London 5 February to Fanny Worth spinster: Effects £14521 9s. 4.  Resworn October 1900 £17834.9.8 1922 £??? ..826-18-8?

Note that Fanny was then ‘spinster’.
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Mon Inscripts notes for Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe (born POWYS)
In the church of St Mary the Virgin, Whitchurch on Thames, Oxon

On top row on east side of Vault, in the churchyard:
  Philip Lybbe Powys-Lybbe
  Born June 12th 1818 Died Sept 12th 1897
Notes for Philip Lybbe & Ann Phillis (Family)
I believe the separation to have been in 1863 or before.  The reasons are (a) that his first child Amy to Fanny Worth was born in around 1865 and (b) he got the Royal Licence to change his name in 1863, and he used the name of Lybbe for himself, Fanny and their three daughters.
However RCLP-L writes in his testament that the separation of his grandparents did not occur until 1869.  I just don't think he, RCL P-L, got it right.
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On their marriage certificate, he said he was of full age (correct, at 25 and 364 days) and she was 19.  They were both unmarried, he was a Barrister at law of Whitchurch, Oxon and she was of Tilehurst (where her adopted parents lived).  They both said their fathers were Esquire.

The witnesses to the marriage included Willm Stephens (adoptive father of Anne), Charles Greenwood (possibly Anne’s uncle) and three unknowns: W G Romaine, Wm Roges and Innes Pocock.  Note that none of the witnesses were Powyses.

The marriage was by licence so there is presumably a document at some faculty office that will reflect this.
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The FreeBMD marriage record only enables her record to be found; his is, curiously, not there.

The Marriage Locator site <http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/>; calculates that the church was Tilehurst St Michael.

The Hereford Journal states explicitly that she was Wm Stephens’ adopted daughter.
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FamilySearch has this record:

groom's name: Philip Lybbe Powys
bride's name: Anne Phillis Greenwood
marriage date: 11 Jun 1844
marriage place: Tilehurst,Berkshire,England
groom's father's name: Henry Philip Powys
bride's father's name: Thomas Greenwood
indexing project (batch) number: M02180-5
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 1040703
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