Ashley Ponsonby

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| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Ashley Ponsonby

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|DL|JP}}

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| office1 = Member of Parliament for Cirencester

| term1 = 1852–1857
1859–1865

| party = Liberal

| birth_date = {{birth date|1831|06|24|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1898|01|12|1831|06|24|df=yes}}

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| father = William Ponsonby

| relatives = Charles Ponsonby (brother)
Frederick Ponsonby (grandfather)
Anthony Ashley-Cooper (grandfather)

| spouse = {{marriage|Louisa Gordon|1857}}

| children = 3

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The Hon. Ashley George John Ponsonby, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|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 Ashley-Cooper, 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 Gordon, daughter of Lord Henry Gordon, in 1857.{{Cite web |title={{!}} British Armorial Bindings |url=https://armorial.bibsoc.org.uk/stamp-owners/PON001.html |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=armorial.bibsoc.org.uk}} 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.