Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896), was a British peer and Liberal politician.
Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, third son of the third Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, only child and heiress of the fifth Earl of Shaftesbury. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge.[1][2]
On 9 August 1838, he married his cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough,[3] and they had 10 children:
- Hon. Alice Barbara Maria (1840–1846)
- Hon. Emily Priscilla Maria (1841–1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy
- Hon. William Ashley Webb (1843–1918)
- Hon. George (1844–1845)
- Hon. Maurice John George (1846–1945), married Hon. Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy
- Hon. Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle)
- Hon. Mary Alice (1849–?)
- Hon. Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith
- Hon. Helen Geraldine (1852–1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
- Hon. Diana Isabel Maria (1855–?)
References
- Burke, John Bernard (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 284.
- Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1832-42. CUP Archive. 1967. p. 250.
- Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. William Pickering. 1845. p. 82.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Ponsonby
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Charles Tulk George Byng |
Member of Parliament for Poole 1837–1847 With: Sir George Philips 1837–1852 |
Succeeded by Sir George Philips George Robinson |
| Preceded by Richard Sheil |
Member of Parliament for Dungarvan 1851–1852 |
Succeeded by John Maguire |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by William Ponsonby |
Baron de Mauley 1855–1896 |
Succeeded by William Ponsonby |
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