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    Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby GCB PC (10 December 1825 – 21 November 1895) was a British soldier and royal court official who served as Queen...
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    British politician, writer, and social activist. He was the son of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, and Mary Elizabeth Bulteel, daughter...
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  • Ponsonby may refer to: Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871–1946), British politician, writer, and social activist Arthur Ponsonby, 11th...
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    General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, who was the father of Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, and Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede...
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    politician Arthur Ponsonby. Ponsonby was the third son of General Sir Henry Ponsonby and the great-grandson of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough...
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    sons of General Sir Henry Ponsonby and his wife the Hon. Mary Elizabeth (née Bulteel). A member of a junior branch of the Ponsonby family, he was the grandson...
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    Matthew Henry Herbert Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (26 July 1904 – 29 April 1976) was a British peer. Ponsonby was the son of Arthur Ponsonby, by...
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    Ponsonby (Māori: Te Rimu Tahi) is an inner-city suburb of Auckland located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD. The suburb is oriented along a ridge running...
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  • General Ponsonby may refer to: Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (1783–1837), British Army major general Henry Ponsonby (1825–1895), British Army major general...
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    native Danish, progress in other languages and subjects was slow. Sir Henry Ponsonby thought that Albert Victor might have inherited his mother's deafness...
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    appointed Private Secretary to Queen Victoria in 1895 in succession to Sir Henry Ponsonby and served until her death in January 1901. A couple of months later...
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    Henry Ponsonby (1620 - 1681) was a soldier in Oliver Cromwell's army during the Irish Confederate Wars who became a significant landowner and landlord...
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    portrayed Admiral Roebuck to Dench's M, and Mrs Brown, playing Sir Henry Ponsonby to Dench's Queen Victoria. Palmer's voice-over skills led to frequent...
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  • a little too well for the liking of Victoria's Chief Secretary Sir Henry Ponsonby and The Prince of Wales as well as other members of the Royal Family;...
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    becoming the governor-general of India. By 1874, Major-General Sir Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, had ordered English charters to be scrutinised...
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    Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby GCMG KCB KCH (6 July 1783 – 11 January 1837) was an Anglo-Irish military officer. Ponsonby was the second of three sons...
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  • Waugh's Decline and Fall in 2017. His final film role was that of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's Private Secretary, in Victoria & Abdul (2017). Pigott-Smith...
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    Baron Sysonby (category Ponsonby family)
    Frederick Ponsonby. He was the second son of Sir Henry Ponsonby, grandson of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, while Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron...
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    the Queen's private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, in outrage after he saw the Munshi among the gentry. Ponsonby suggested that as it was "by the Queen's...
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  • Henry Ponsonby (1685 – 11 May 1745) was an Irish soldier. He was the son of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon and brother of Brabazon Ponsonby...
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    William Ponsonby, who was created Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly in 1806, and Hon. Louisa Molesworth. He was the grandson of politician Hon. John Ponsonby and...
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    in West Sussex, England; it became the home of the Ponsonby family, including the first Lord Ponsonby. It is a Grade I listed building. Shulbrede Priory...
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    rather, it passed (if it did) from Macleod's sister to the wife of Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, and thence to Harcourt's father Sir...
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    by his wife, the Hon. Mary Ponsonby, daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby. He was the younger brother of Henry, the 3rd Earl Grey. After a...
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  • trusted adviser to three British monarchs, his grandfather was the Sir Henry Ponsonby, who was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria. His great-grandfather...
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    Hopetoun) and the Duke of Edinburgh (her maternal uncle; represented by Sir Henry Ponsonby). Victoria Eugenie grew up in Queen Victoria's household, as the British...
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    Phipps KCB 1861 1866 General Charles Grey 1861 1870 Major-General Sir Henry Ponsonby GCB 1870 1895 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Bigge GCVO, KCB 1895 1901...
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    consternation of her private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, Victoria began work on a eulogistic biography of Brown. Ponsonby and Randall Davidson, Dean of Windsor...
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    1870s. The Norman Gatehouse was turned into a private dwelling for Sir Henry Ponsonby. Windsor Castle did not benefit from many of the minor improvements...
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  • Haugh-Heale, near Whitehaven, Cumbria, the son of Dorothy Sands and Henry Ponsonby. He was listed as the proprietor of lands at Iverk, Kilkenny in 1641...
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