Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley | |
Office1: | Member of Parliament for Dungarvan |
Term1: | 1851–1852 |
Office2: | Member of Parliament for Poole |
Term2: | 1837–1847 |
Party: | Liberal |
Birth Date: | 12 September 1815 |
Education: | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Father: | William Ponsonby |
Relatives: | Ashley Ponsonby (brother) Frederick Ponsonby (grandfather) Anthony Ashley-Cooper (grandfather) |
Children: | 10, including William and Maurice |
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, 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: