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Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley

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British peer and Liberal politician (1815–1896)

Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
Member of Parliament for Dungarvan
In office
1851–1852
Member of Parliament for Poole
In office
1837–1847
Personal details
Born(1815-09-12)12 September 1815
Died24 August 1896(1896-08-24) (aged 80)
Political partyLiberal
Spouse Maria Ponsonby ​(m. 1838)​
Children10, including William and Maurice
Parent
RelativesAshley Ponsonby (brother)
Frederick Ponsonby (grandfather)
Anthony Ashley-Cooper (grandfather)
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge

Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896), was a British peer and Liberal politician.

Biography

Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, the 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.

On 9 August 1838, he married his second cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough; they had 10 children:

  • Alice Barbara Maria (1840–1846)
  • Emily Priscilla Maria (1841–1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy
  • William Ashley Webb (1843–1918)
  • George (1844–1845)
  • Maurice John George (1846–1945), married Hon. Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy
  • Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle)
  • Mary Alice (1849–?)
  • Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith
  • Helen Geraldine (1852–1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
  • Diana Isabel Maria (1855–?)

References

  1. Burke, John Bernard (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 284.
  2. Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1832-42. CUP Archive. 1967. p. 250.
  3. Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. William Pickering. 1845. p. 82.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byCharles Tulk
George Byng 		Member of Parliament for Poole
1837–1847
With: Sir George Philips 		Succeeded bySir George Philips
George Robinson
Preceded byRichard Sheil Member of Parliament for Dungarvan
1851–1852 		Succeeded byJohn Maguire
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded byWilliam Ponsonby Baron de Mauley
1855–1896 		Succeeded byWilliam Ponsonby


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