Richard POWYS

NOTE: Martin P-L writes:Clerk of the Treasury: 1662-1723, brother of Sir Thomas.He was one of the principal clerks of the Treasury (family MSbook).There are a few letters from him in the British Library. One,written in 1707, lamented his imminent death from gout - but helived for another 16 years.There are other letters relating to him (termed fascinating byMary Creaser) in the Shrewsbury Record Office.References to him in the PRO (unread by me) are:-10 William III (ie. 1698) Exchequer Depositions Mich./27Salop. Group 2.1703 Chancery Proceedings, Bridges 3/312.There must be records of him in the Treasury as well.The transcription of Sir Littleton's papers includes: Elizabeth,wife of my brotherRichard, dyed 22. 1. 1721. From othersources the only wife we know ofis Anne, daughter of JohnSingleton. Their son Richard married Lady Brudenell, dau. ofthe Earl of Cardigan. Their daughter, also Anne, married Thos.Hill MP of Fern Hall and Shrubstone Park. The grandchildrencontinued this upward mobility, Richard's daughters marryingViscount Sydneyand the Earl of Courtown respectively, andAnne's son becoming the first Lord Berwick of Attingham.Richard senior's will survives, PRO 1723, Bolton 41. Itinstructed that he be buried in Hintlesham church, Suffolk. (Hehad bought Hintlesham Hall). To Charles Cotes of Inner TempleandAndrew Hill of the Navy Office, all my lands in Suffolk for99 years ontrust. To my son Richard the farm I bought inCaenham, Salop (which hadpreviously belonged to his father andbeen farmed by his uncle Peter and his cousin -Peter's son - Richard). His mother was nee Cotes, so CharlesCotes was presumably a relation. The Andrew Hill was presumablyconnected to the Hills who married his sister and daughter.He had no malePowys grandchildren.TFPL, May 2001: Miscellania Genealogica aet Heraldica, fifthseries, Vol VII, p. 360 has a review of "Timperley ofHintlesham. A study of a Suffolk Family" by Sir Gerald H Ryan,Bt and Lilian J Redstone, pubv by Methuen & Co of London at 8sand 6d, c,1930. The review syas that the Timperley's owned themanor from 1434 to 1720 when Richard Powys bought it and that"many alterations and additions were made tothe originalbuilding after it came into the Powys family." The book "hastwo pedigree tables".In 1725, according to Alumni Oxoniensis, he wasliving at StAnne's Westminster.

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