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Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley

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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

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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

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  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 by Member of Parliament for Poole
1837–1847
With: Sir George Philips
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dungarvan
1851–1852
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron de Mauley
1855–1896
Succeeded by