Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
{{Short description|British peer and Liberal politician (1815–1896)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
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| office1 = Member of Parliament for Dungarvan
| term1 = 1851–1852
| office2 = Member of Parliament for Poole
| term2 = 1837–1847
| party = Liberal
| birth_date = {{birth date|1815|09|12|df=yes}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1896|08|24|1815|09|12|df=yes}}
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| education = Trinity College, Cambridge
| father = William Ponsonby
| relatives = Ashley Ponsonby (brother)
Frederick Ponsonby (grandfather)
Anthony Ashley-Cooper (grandfather)
| spouse = {{marriage|Maria Ponsonby|1838}}
| children = 10, including William and Maurice
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Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896), was a British peer and Liberal politician.
Biography
Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, the 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.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1845 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=284 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfdRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA284 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1832-42 |year=1967 |publisher=CUP Archive |page=250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAI4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA250 |language=en}}
On 9 August 1838, he married his second cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough;{{cite book |title=Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1845 |publisher=William Pickering |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m19HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA82 |language=en}} they had 10 children:{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
- Alice Barbara Maria (1840–1846)
- Emily Priscilla Maria (1841–1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy
- William Ashley Webb (1843–1918)
- George (1844–1845)
- Maurice John George (1846–1945), married Hon. Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy
- Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle)
- Mary Alice (1849–?)
- Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith
- Helen Geraldine (1852–1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
- Diana Isabel Maria (1855–?)
References
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External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | hon-charles-ponsonby | Charles Ponsonby }}
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Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
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