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Maria Ponsonby, Viscountess Duncannon (11 May 1787 – 19 March 1834), formerly Lady Maria Fane, was the wife of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough. She died before he inherited the earldom and thus was never Countess of Bessborough, but three of her sons were successively earls of Bessborough.
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John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, PC (31 August 1781 – 16 May 1847), known as Viscount Duncannon from 1793 to 1844, was a British 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.
in the year 1722 was created Viscount Duncannon. He married Mary, daughter of Brabazon Moore of Ardee, and died at the age of 67 in 1724. His tablet in Fiddown church is of white veined marble on black Kilkenny marble ornamented with skulls and cross bones, hour-glasses run down and a grass-hopper. The sculptor was Kidwell of
Maria Ponsonby, Viscountess Duncannon (11 May 1787 – 19 March 1834), formerly Lady Maria Fane, was the wife of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough. She died before he inherited the earldom and thus was never Countess of Bessborough, but three of her sons were successively earls of Bessborough.
Biography. Duncannon ‘with a phlegmatic temperament, great taciturnity, and a slowness of utterance almost amounting to a natural impediment’, developed tardily as a politician.
Family. Bessborough House, County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1818 - the family seat of the Earls of Bessborough. John Ponsonby married Lady Maria Fane, daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, and his wife Sarah (née Child), on 16 November 1805 at Berkeley Square, London. They had eight sons and six daughters.
