Ponsonby Tottenham
{{Short description|Anglo-Irish politician (1746–1818)}}
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Ponsonby Tottenham (1746 – 13 December 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician.
Biography
Tottenham sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Fethard between 1779 and 1790, before sitting for Bannow from 1790 and 1797. He then represented Clonmines between 1797 and the seat's disfranchisement under the Acts of Union 1800.E. M. Johnston-Liik, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jitdluWSybIC MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800] (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.127 (Retrieved 25 April 2020). In 1800 he had been appointed Clerk of the Ordnance in the Irish Board of Ordnance and was awarded compensation of £487 2s. 6d per annum following the abolition of the post after the Union. Tottenham subsequently sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as the MP for Wexford Borough from 1801 to 1802, before representing New Ross between 1805 and 1806.
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| title = Member of Parliament for Fethard
| with = Charles Tottenham (1779–1783)
| with2 = Ephraim Carroll (1783–1790)
| years = 1779–1790
| before = Charles Tottenham
Robert Hellen
| after = Charles Tottenham
Thomas Loftus
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| title = Member of Parliament for Bannow
| with = Ephraim Carroll
| years = 1790–1797
| before = Henry Loftus
Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
| after = William Loftus
Ephraim Carroll
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| title = Member of Parliament for Clonmines
| with = Luke Fox (1798–1799)
| with2 = Henry Luttrell (1799–1800)
| with3 = Henry Eustace (1800)
| years = 1797–1800
| before = Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
Charles Eustace
| after = Constituency disenfranchised
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| title = Member of Parliament for Wexford Borough
| years = 1801–1802
| before = Francis Leigh
| after = Richard Nevill
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| title = Member of Parliament for New Ross
| years = 1805–1806
| before = Charles Tottenham
| after = Charles Leigh
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Category:18th-century Anglo-Irish people
Category:19th-century Anglo-Irish people
Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies