Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896), was a British peer and Liberal politician.

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.[1][2]

On 9 August 1838, he married his second cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough;[3] they had 10 children:[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Burke, John Bernard (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 284.
  2. ^ Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1832-42. CUP Archive. 1967. p. 250.
  3. ^ Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. William Pickering. 1845. p. 82.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byCharles TulkGeorge Byng Member of Parliament for Poole 1837–1847 With: Sir George Philips Succeeded bySir George PhilipsGeorge Robinson Preceded byRichard Sheil Member of Parliament for Dungarvan 1851–1852 Succeeded byJohn Maguire Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byWilliam Ponsonby Baron de Mauley 1855–1896 Succeeded byWilliam Ponsonby
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