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Ponsonby may refer to: Surname * Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871–1946), British politician, writer, and social activist * Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough (1912–2002), British peer * Ashley Ponsonby DL, JP (1831–1898), British Liberal politician * Bernard Ponsonby, Scottish broadcast journalist * Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough (1679–1758), British politician and peer * Lady Caroline Ponsonby (1785–1828), married name Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist and the lover of Lord Byron * Cecil Ponsonby (1889–1945), English cricketer, right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper * Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby (1720–1762), Irish Member of Parliament * Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker (1762–1834), Irish Member of Parliament * Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley of Canford (1815–1896), British peer and Liberal politician * Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet (1879–1976), British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament 1935–1950, create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby Of Shulbrede
Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (16 February 1871 – 23 March 1946), was a British politician, writer, and social activist. He was the son of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, and Mary Elizabeth Bulteel, daughter of John Crocker Bulteel. He was also the great-grandson of The 3rd Earl of Bessborough, The 3rd Earl of Bathurst and The 2nd Earl Grey. The 1st Baron Sysonby was his elder brother. Ponsonby is often quoted as the author of the dictum "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty", published in his book '' Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War'' (1928). However, he uses this phrase in quotation marks as an epigram at the start of the book and does not present it as his own words. Its likely origin is the almost identical line spoken in 1917 by the United States Senator Hiram Johnson: "The first casualty when war comes is tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby Of Shulbrede
Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton (born 27 October 1958), is a British peer and Labour Party politician. Lord Ponsonby serves as a UK Government Minister in the Ministry of Justice since 2024. Early life and education The only son of Thomas Ponsonby, 3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and Ursula ''née'' Fox-Pitt, he attended Holland Park School, before going up to read Physics at Cardiff University, graduating BSc 1980. He then pursued post-graduate studies in Engineering at Imperial College London, CEng 1997. Lord Ponsonby was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) in 1996. Political career Succeeding as Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede upon his father's death in 1990, he took his seat in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer in 1991, sitting on the Labour benches. Lord Ponsonby represented Roehampton Ward as a councillor on Wandsworth London Borough Council from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby Of Imokilly
John Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB ( – 21 February 1855) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, politician and peer. Political career Ponsonby, born about 1770 in County Kilkenny, was the eldest son of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, and Louisa Molesworth, and brother of Major-General Sir William Ponsonby. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for Tallow between 1793 and 1797. Elected in 1798 for both Banagher and Dungarvan, he chose to sit for the latter from 1798 to the Act of Union in 1800/01. He then represented Galway Borough in the United Kingdom House of Commons until 1802. Diplomatic career On the death of his father on 5 November 1806, Ponsonby succeeded him as Baron Ponsonby, and for some time held an appointment in the Ionian Islands. On 28 February 1826, he went to Buenos Aires as envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary until 1828, and moved then to Rio de Janeiro in the same capacity. An exceptionall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponsonby, 5th Earl Of Bessborough
John George Brabazon Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough (14 October 1809 – 28 January 1880), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1844 until 1847, was a British cricketer, courtier and Liberal politician. Background Born in London, Ponsonby was the eldest son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife Lady Maria Fane, third daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland. He was a cricketer in his youth and played five first-class matches for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the 1830s. Political career Ponsonby entered the House of Commons in the 1831 general election, sitting as a Whig for Bletchingley, where he was returned unopposed. He only sat for a short period, vacating his seat in July in favour of Thomas Hyde Villiers, newly appointed as a minister and requiring a seat. In October, he was offered a seat in the pocket borough of Higham Ferrers, which he held until the seat was disenfranchised at the end of 1832. During 1832, he may have spent some time at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl Of Bessborough
John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (31 August 1781 – 16 May 1847), known as Viscount Duncannon from 1793 to 1844, was a British Whig (British political party), Whig politician. He was notably Home Secretary in 1834 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1846 and 1847, the first years of the Great Famine (Ireland), Great Famine. Background and education A member of the prominent Ponsonby family of Cumberland, he was the eldest son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, daughter of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer. Frederick Ponsonby (British Army officer), Sir Frederick Ponsonby and William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, were his younger brothers, while Lady Caroline Lamb was his younger sister. Ponsonby's mother was Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, Lord Granville's lover before his marriage to Lady Harriet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponsonby (politician)
John Ponsonby, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) (29 March 1713 – 16 August 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1756 and 1771, a period in which the legislative independence of the Kingdom of Ireland was increasingly asserted and tested. Early life Ponsonby was the second son of Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough, Brabazon Ponsonby, who was created the Earl of Bessborough in 1739, and his first wife, Sarah Margetson Colvill. He was the grandson of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon. He was admitted to Trinity College Dublin on 6 April 1730, but there is no evidence that he ever graduated. Parliamentary career In 1739, Ponsonby entered the Irish House of Commons for Newtownards (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Newtownards and was soon aligned to his father's faction, which sought to reduce the influence of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, Henry Boyle. When Boyle resigned as speaker (politics), speaker in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ponsonby (British Army Officer)
Major general (United Kingdom), Major General Sir John Ponsonby, (25 March 1866 – 26 March 1952) was a British Army officer who commanded the 5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom), 5th Division during the last year of the First World War. Military career Born the son of Henry Ponsonby, Sir Henry Ponsonby and educated at Eton College, Ponsonby was Officer (armed forces), commissioned as a Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters in March 1886. After transferring to the Royal Irish Rifles (later the Royal Ulster Rifles) in November 1887, he was transferred into the Coldstream Guards, and the Standing army, Regular Army, in August 1888. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Ponsonby
John Ponsonby (1874 – 1962) was a footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke. Career Ponsonby was born in Dumbarton, Scotland to Irish parentsShamrock on Blue Scots Football Worldwide and moved over to where he played for . He joined in 1897 and played five matches during the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ponsonby
Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby (10 December 1825 – 21 November 1895) was a British soldier and royal court official who served as Queen Victoria's Private Secretary. Biography Born in Corfu, he was the son of Major-General Sir Frederick Ponsonby, an Anglo-Irish nobleman who was a senior commander in the British Army. He entered the army on 27 December 1842 as an ensign in the 49th Regiment of Foot. Transferred to the Grenadier Guards, he became a lieutenant on 16 February 1844, captain on 18 July 1848, and major on 19 October 1849. From 1847 to 1858 he was '' aide-de-camp'' to Lord Clarendon and Lord St. Germans, successively lord-lieutenants of Ireland. He served through the Crimean campaigns of 1855–1856, becoming lieutenant-colonel on 31 Aug. 1855; for the action before Sebastopol he received a medal with clasp, the Turkish medal, and the Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class. After the peace he was appointed equerry to Albert, Prince Consort, who greatl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ponsonby (died 1745)
Major-General Henry Ponsonby (1685 – 11 May 1745) was a British Army officer and politician. He was the son of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon and brother of Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough. He married his cousin Lady Frances Brabazon, daughter of Chambré Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath, and was father of Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Fethard from 1715 to 1727. In 1727 he was elected for both Clomines and Inistioge, sitting for the latter constituency until his death. He reached the rank of major general and was colonel of a Regiment of Foot, (later the 37th Regiment of Foot), from 1735 to his death. He was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy The Battle of Fontenoy took place on 11 May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Tournai, then in the Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Maurice, comte de Saxe, Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Ar ... in 1745. References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess Of Bessborough
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (16 June 1761 – 11 November 1821), born Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer (generally called Harriet), was the wife of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; the couple were the parents of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her father, John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, was a great-grandson of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her sister was Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Biography Early life Being the youngest child, Harriet was often left in England when her parents and elder sister Georgiana would visit the continent for her father's health. As a child, Harriet was frail and sickly, which led her mother Lady Spencer, Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer, to send her abroad for schooling, thinking that foreign air would help strengthen her. However, she grew into a young woman of unique beauty and good nature. She was keenly intelligent with a perceptive eye for the people around her, and a well-read wit. Her friends valued h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ponsonby
George Ponsonby (5 March 17558 July 1817), was a British lawyer and Whig politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. Background and education Ponsonby was the second surviving son of the Honourable John Ponsonby, speaker of the Irish House of Commons (1756–71), and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (1723–1796), daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire. He was educated at Kilkenny College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Legal and political career A barrister, Ponsonby became a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1776. He sat for Wicklow between 1778 and 1783 and subsequently for Inistioge between 1783 and 1797. From 1798 until the Act of Union in 1801, he represented Galway Borough. Ponsonby was Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in 1782, afterwards taking a prominent part in the debates on the question of Roman Catholic relief, and leading the opposition to the union of the parliaments. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
