Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
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 | 12 September 1815 |
| Died | 24 August 1896 (aged 80) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse |
Maria Ponsonby (m. 1838) |
| Children | 10, including William and Maurice |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Ashley Ponsonby (brother) Frederick Ponsonby (grandfather) Anthony Ashley-Cooper (grandfather) |
| Education | Trinity 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.[1][2]
On 9 August 1838, he married his second cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough;[3] they had 10 children:[citation needed]
- 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
- ^ 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.
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