Ashley Ponsonby

The Hon. Ashley George John Ponsonby DL JP (24 June 1831 – 12 January 1898) was a British Liberal politician.

Background

Ponsonby was a younger son of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, third son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough. His mother was Lady Barbara, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury.

Political and military career

Ponsonby sat as Member of Parliament for Cirencester between 1852 and 1857 and again between 1859 and 1865. He was also a Captain in the Grenadier Guards and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

Family

Ponsonby married Louisa Frances Charlotte, daughter of Lord Henry Gordon, in 1857. They had two sons and one daughter. He died in January 1898, aged 66. His wife died in February 1910.

He lived at Prince's Gardens in London and at Heatherfield in Ascot, Berkshire, now Heatherwood Hospital.

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References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ashley Ponsonby

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Viscount Villiers Joseph Randolph Mullings	Member of Parliament for Cirencester 1852–1857 With: Joseph Randolph Mullings	Succeeded by Joseph Randolph Mullings Allen Bathurst
Preceded by Joseph Randolph Mullings Allen Bathurst	Member of Parliament for Cirencester 1859–1865 With: Allen Bathurst	Succeeded by Allen Bathurst Hon. Ralph Dutton

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