Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley explained

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.

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:

Notes and References

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