Ashley Ponsonby
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Ashley Ponsonby | |
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| Member of Parliament for Cirencester | |
| In office 1852–1857 1859-1865 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 June 1831 |
| Died | 12 January 1898 (aged 66) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse |
Louisa Gordon (m. 1857) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Charles Ponsonby (brother) Frederick Ponsonby (grandfather) Anthony Ashley-Cooper (grandfather) |
The Hon. Ashley George John Ponsonby, DL, JP (24 June 1831 – 12 January 1898), was a British Liberal politician.
Background
[edit]Ponsonby was a younger son of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, third son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough. His mother was Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Political and military career
[edit]Ponsonby sat as Member of Parliament for Cirencester between 1852 and 1857 and again between 1859 and 1865. He was also a captain in the Grenadier Guards and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
Family
[edit]Ponsonby married Louisa Frances Charlotte Gordon, daughter of Lord Henry Gordon, in 1857. They had two sons and one daughter. He died in January 1898, aged 66. His wife died in February 1910.
He lived at Prince's Gardens in London and at Heatherfield in Ascot, Berkshire, now Heatherwood Hospital.
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- 1831 births
- 1898 deaths
- Younger sons of barons
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1852–1857
- UK MPs 1859–1865
- Grenadier Guards officers
- Deputy lieutenants of Gloucestershire
- Members of London County Council
- Progressive Party (London) politicians
- Ponsonby family
- 19th-century British Army personnel
- Military personnel from London
- Military personnel from Berkshire
- English justices of the peace