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John Ponsonby, 1º visconde Ponsonby (c. 1770 – 22 de fevereiro de 1855) foi um diplomata e político britânico. Era o filho mais velho de William Ponsonby, 1º Baron Ponsonby. Serviu como membro da Irish House of Commons por Tallaght (1793–1797) e por Dungarvan (1797–1800).
John Ponsonby, PC (Ire) (29 March 1713 – 16 August 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Biography. Ponsonby was the second son of 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.
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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 ...
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 exceptionally handsome man, he wa...
Through Lord Grey, who had married his sister Mary Elizabeth, he had great influence, but his conduct as an ambassador sometimes caused official embarrassment, notably when he accompanied the emperor to Innsbruck in 1848. He was a keen diplomat of the "old school", a shrewd observer, and a man of large views and strong will. He was gazetted G.C.B. ...
John Ponsonby may refer to: John Ponsonby (politician) (1713–1789), Irish politician. John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby (c. 1772 – 1855), British diplomat. John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (1781–1847), English politician. John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough (1809–1880), British politician.
Hon. John Ponsonby (politician) (1713–1789), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons; John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (1781–1847), British politician and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough (1809–1880), British peer and politician; John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, (c.1772 ...
Christ Church, Oxford. 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 .
John Brabazon Ponsonby, Primer Vizconde Ponsonby, (1770 - 22 de febrero de 1855), fue un político y diplomático británico 1 y caballero gran cruz de la Orden del Baño . Poseyendo el título nobiliario inglés de lord, fue integrante de la Cámara de los Comunes entre 1793 y 1802.
