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.

Biography

Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, the 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.

On 9 August 1838, he married his second cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough; they had 10 children:

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

He lived at Langford House, Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire.

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