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John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough. (1781-1847), Politician; MP for several constituencies. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 37 portraits. Ponsonby entered Parliament as Baron Duncannon in 1834. He served in several senior government posts including Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal.
Margaret Georgiana Poyntz. Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (16 June 1761 – 11 November 1821), born Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer (generally called Harriet ), was the wife of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; the couple were the parents of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her father, John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, was a great ...
William Ponsonby was the son of Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough, and his wife Sarah Margetson, and elder brother of John Ponsonby. On 5 July 1739, William married Lady Caroline Cavendish, eldest daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire , who died in 1760 aged 40.
28. Nov. 2023 · John George Brabazon Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough PC (14 October 1809 28 January 1880), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1844 until 1847, was a British cricketer, courtier and Liberal politician. Born in London, Ponsonby was the eldest son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife.
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough (1781–1847); married Lady Maria Fane (daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland) on 16 November 1805. They had 14 children. Major General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (1783–1837); married Lady Emily Bathurst (daughter Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst), on 16 March 1825. They had six children.
He married Mary (d. 1713), daughter of the Hon. Randal Moore of Ardee, and their son, Brabazon Ponsonby (qv) (1679–1758), was created 1st earl of Bessborough in 1739. The Ponsonby family became one of the most powerful political families in Ireland in the eighteenth century, when they married into the prestigious Cavendish family, dukes of Devonshire, in 1743.
On 4 July 1758 he succeeded his father as 2nd earl of Bessborough and on 23 November he took his seat in the British house of lords as 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby; he resigned from the treasury the following year. He was joint postmaster general in two administrations (1759–62, 1765–6), but withdrew from government after a dispute over place. He remained in opposition for the next decade ...
