English clergyman in South Africa
Maurice George Jesser Ponsonby , M.C. [ 1] [citation needed - 27 February 1943) was Dean of Johannesburg from 1923 until 1930.[ 2]
He was born at Horsley, Gloucestershire ; educated at Eton [ 3] Trinity College, Oxford ; and ordained in 1905.[ 4] curacies at Hackney Wick and Benenden he was Rector of Pilgrim's Rest from 1912 to 1914. He was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York from 1914 to 1919; and also a Chaplain to the Forces during the same period. He was Rector of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Johannesburg from 1919 to 1923.
After his return from South Africa he was Rector of Much Haddam from 1930 until 1930. His funeral was held at Newtimber [ 5] [ 6]
Notes
^ London Gazette ^ ‘PONSONBY, Rev. Maurice George Jesser’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 12 Dec 2015
^ thePeerage.com ^ Crockfords 1929/30 p1030 (London ), OUP , 1929^ Memorial to Ponsonby in the church ^ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, Mar 01, 1943; pg. 1; Issue 49482
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