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

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