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Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley

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Name
  
Charles 2nd

Role
  
British Politician


Died
  
August 24, 1896

Party
  
Liberal Party

Parents
  
William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley

Grandparents
  
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough

Great-grandparents
  
John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer

Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley of Canford (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896) was a British peer and Liberal politician.

Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, third son of the third Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, only child and heiress of the fifth Earl of Shaftesbury. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

On 9 August 1838, he married his cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby (a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough) and they had at least six children:

  • Hon. William Ashley Webb (1843–1918)
  • Hon. Maurice John George (1846–1945)
  • Hon. Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle)
  • Hon. Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith
  • Hon. Emily Priscilla Maria (d. 1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy
  • Hon. Helen Geraldine (d. 1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
  • References

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