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	(1815-09-12)12 September 1815
Died	24 August 1896(1896-08-24) (aged 80)
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Maria Ponsonby ​ (m. 1838)​
Children	10, including William and Maurice
Parent	William Ponsonby (father)
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

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.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Ponsonby

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Tulk George Byng	Member of Parliament for Poole 1837–1847 With: Sir George Philips	Succeeded by Sir George Philips George Robinson
Preceded by Richard Sheil	Member of Parliament for Dungarvan 1851–1852	Succeeded by John Maguire
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Ponsonby	Baron de Mauley 1855–1896	Succeeded by William Ponsonby