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2 de fev. de 2019 · Sir William Ponsonby has gone down in immortality as leading the decisive charge of the Union Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, on June 18th, 1815. In the 1970’s film ‘Waterloo’ he was played by Michael Wilding and anyone who has seen this film will remember how he and a Scots Greys trooper are pursued across a muddy landscape by seven ...
Ponsonby married Mary, daughter of the Hon. Randle Moore and granddaughter of Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Drogheda, by whom he had nine children, three sons and six daughters. She died aged 51 on 26 May 1713, and he died on 17 November 1724, when he was succeeded by his eldest son Brabazon. Lord Duncannon and his wife are buried in the church ...
Barons de Mauley. William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley (1787–1855) third son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough. He married Barbara, only daughter and heir of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury, and co heir of the ancient Barony of De Mauley. Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de ...
Lady Caroline Ponsonby, better known to history under her married name of Lady Caroline Lamb, was the wife of the future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and lover of the poet Lord Byron. This lady was also a key figure in a film – played by Sarah Miles – in 1972. The father of the two siblings, Frederick's great-grandfather, was the 3rd Earl ...
30 de abr. de 2022 · William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley (31 July 1787 – 16 May 1855) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1826 and 1837. He was raised to the Peerage in 1838. view all.
Januar 1930 wurde er als Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, of Shulbrede in the County of Sussex, zum erblichen Peer und wurde dadurch Mitglied des House of Lords. 1931 war er zeitweise Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster und war von 1931 bis 1935 Oppositionsführer im House of Lords. Er war von 1934 bis 1937 Vorsitzender der „ War Resisters ...
Ponsonby was the second of three sons of Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Dungannon (who succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Bessborough in 1793), and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough. He was the brother of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough , and William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley , and his sister was the "notorious" Lady Caroline Lamb , who married the Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne .
