Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley

Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (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.^[1]^[2]

On 9 August 1838, he married his cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough,^[3] and they had 10 children:^{[citation needed]}

Hon. Alice Barbara Maria (1840–1846)
Hon. Emily Priscilla Maria (1841–1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy
Hon. William Ashley Webb (1843–1918)
Hon. George (1844–1845)
Hon. Maurice John George (1846–1945), married Hon. Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy
Hon. Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle)
Hon. Mary Alice (1849–?)
Hon. Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith
Hon. Helen Geraldine (1852–1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
Hon. Diana Isabel Maria (1855–?)

References[]

^ Burke, John Bernard (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 284.
^ Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1832-42. CUP Archive. 1967. p. 250.
^ Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. William Pickering. 1845. p. 82.

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Ponsonby

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Tulk George Byng	Member of Parliament for Poole 1837–1847 With: Sir George Philips 1837–1852	Succeeded by Sir George Philips George Robinson
Preceded by Richard Sheil	Member of Parliament for Dungarvan 1851–1852	Succeeded by John Maguire
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Ponsonby	Baron de Mauley 1855–1896	Succeeded by William Ponsonby

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[1] Burke, John Bernard (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 284.

[2] Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1832-42. CUP Archive. 1967. p. 250.

[3] Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. William Pickering. 1845. p. 82.

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