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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.
PONSONBY, John William, Visct. Duncannon (1781-1847). Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
Ponsonby was the eldest son of Viscount Duncannon (who succeeded as the 2nd Earl of Bessborough in July 1758) and Lady Caroline Cavendish, daughter of The 3rd Duke of Devonshire. He succeeded to his father's titles in 1793.
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
In 1722 Brabazon was granted the patent office of searcher of Waterford, Passage and Ross. In 1724 he succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Duncannon, and in 1727, having been recommended unsuccessfully on two previous occasions in 1724 and 1726, was appointed to the Irish privy council.
