The Right Honourable
The Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
19 April 2000
as a life peer
In office
14 June 1990 – 11 November 1999
as a hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
Personal details
Born
Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby

(1958-10-27) 27 October 1958 (age 65)
Political partyLabour
RelationsPonsonby family
Parents

Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton (born 27 October 1958), is a British peer and Labour Party politician.

Early and personal life

Ponsonby was born on 27 October 1958 to Thomas Ponsonby and Ursula Fox-Pitt. He is married with two children: Eve (born 1991) and Cameron (born 1995).

Arms

Coat of arms of Frederick Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Crest
Out of a ducal coronet Azure three arrows, point downwards, one in pale and two in saltire, entwined at the intersection by a snake proper.
Escutcheon
Gules a chevron between three combs Argent
Motto
Pro Rege Lege Grege (For The King, The Law, And The People) [1]

Political career

As his father's eldest child, he succeeded him as Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede and a hereditary peer upon his death in 1990. A member of the Labour Party, he lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999. However, he returned to the chamber as a life peer in 2000, as Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton, of Shulbrede in the County of West Sussex. Ponsonby has served as an opposition spokesperson for Justice since April 2020 and Home Affairs since May 2021.

Notes

  1. ^ Seat abolished by the House of Lords Act 1999.

References

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. 2000.

Sources

Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byThomas Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede 1990–present Member of the House of Lords(1990–1999) IncumbentHeir apparent:Hon. Cameron Ponsonby
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