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    George Ponsonby (5 March 1755 – 8 July 1817), was a British lawyer and Whig politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry...
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    a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, who had previously represented Newtownards and...
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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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    William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby (of Imokilly), PC (Ire) (15 September 1744 – 5 November 1806) was a leading Irish Whig politician, being...
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  • The Hon. George Ponsonby (1773 – 5 June 1863), was an Irish politician, who served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury in the governments under Earl Grey...
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    recommended George Ponsonby to the Whig MPs, whom they accepted as the first leader of the opposition in the House of Commons. Ponsonby, an Irish lawyer...
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    Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (16 June 1761 – 11 November 1821), born Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer (generally called Harriet), was the...
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    John Ponsonby, PC (Ire) (29 March 1713 – 16 August 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Ponsonby was the second son of Brabazon Ponsonby, who was created...
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    John Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB (c. 1770 – 21 February 1855) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, politician and peer. Ponsonby, born about 1770...
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    John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, PC (31 August 1781 – 16 May 1847), known as Viscount Duncannon from 1793 to 1844, was a British Whig politician...
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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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    Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Charles Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley, KCVO, TD, FCA (born 30 June 1957), is a British hereditary peer, former Parliamentary...
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    Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough (11 September 1815 – 11 March 1895), was an Anglo-Irish peer who played first-class cricket...
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  • Ashley Webb Ponsonby, 3rd Baron de Mauley (1843–1918) Maurice John George Ponsonby, 4th Baron de Mauley (1846–1945) Hubert William Ponsonby, 5th Baron...
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    had, this gives it us". On 3 February 1808, the opposition leader George Ponsonby requested the publication of all information on the strength and battle-worthiness...
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    married Lady Caroline Ponsonby, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. After two miscarriages and a stillbirth child, she gave birth to George Augustus Frederick in...
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  • Lismore in 1806) Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Viscount Lismore (1775–1857) George Ponsonby O'Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore (1815–1898) Leigh Rayment's Peerage...
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    Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (16 February 1871 – 23 March 1946), was a British politician, writer, and social...
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    Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton (born 27 October 1958), is a British peer and Labour...
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    later, Ponsonby succeeded as Earl of Bessborough and took his seat in the House of Lords. In 1931 he was appointed as Governor-General by King George V, on...
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    Baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly in County Cork, also referred to as Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly, in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of the United...
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    November 1794, Grey married Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby (1776–1861), only daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly and Louisa Molesworth. The...
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    opposition for the following twenty years. About a year after the death of George Ponsonby in 1817, Tierney reluctantly became the recognised leader of the opposition...
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    offered Richard Murray the post of Provost of Trinity College Dublin and George Ponsonby the Attorney-Generalship in place of Arthur Wolfe (who would be Chief...
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    Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, GCB, GCVO, PC (16 September 1867 – 20 October 1935) was a British soldier and courtier. Known as Fritz, Ponsonby was...
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    The "Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple...
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    Edward Granville George Howard, 1st Baron Lanerton (1809–1880), who married Diana Ponsonby, daughter of the Hon. George Ponsonby. Lady Blanche Georgiana...
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    Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel...
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  • the title. For instance, Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley succeeded his childless uncle in 2002. His brother George had no title, as their father was...
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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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