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John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
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Background and education
File:John Hoppner, Portrait of Harriet, Viscountess Duncannon with Her Sons (1787).jpg|thumb|left|Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, with her sons William and John by John HoppnerJohn HoppnerA member of the prominent Ponsonby family of Cumberland, he was the eldest son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, daughter of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer. Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby and William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, were his younger brothers, while Lady Caroline Lamb was his younger sister. Ponsonby's mother was Lord Granville's lover prior to his marriage to Lady Harriet Cavendish, the Countess of Bessborough's niece. Lord Granville fathered two illegitimate children through her: Harriette Stewart and George Stewart. Lord Bessborough was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford.Political career
He was First Commissioner of Woods and Forests under Lord Grey (1831â1834) and served under Lord Melbourne in that office (1835â1841), briefly as Home Secretary (1834), and as Lord Privy Seal (1835â1839). Later, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Lord John Russell from 1846 until his death on 16 May 1847. During his service the Great Famine (Ireland) progressed. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1831 and in 1834, ten years before he succeeded his father, he was created Baron Duncannon, of Bessborough in the County of Kilkenny. He was Lord Lieutenant of Kilkenny from November 1838 until his death.WEB,weblink historyofparliament.org, PONSONBY, John William, Visct. Duncannon (1781-1847)., He had a stammer, which made him a very reluctant public speaker, believing that it hampered his political career. As Lord Duncannon, he was unkindly nicknamed "Dumbcannon". In private on the other hand, he was regarded as a valued colleague in Government, due largely to his ability to keep his head in a crisis. He was one of the so-called Committee of Four who drafted the Reform Act 1832.Family
(File:Neale(1818) p6.220 - Bessborough House, Kilkenny.jpg|thumb|240px|Bessborough House, County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1818 - the family seat of the Earls of Bessborough)John Ponsonby married Lady Maria Fane, daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, and his wife Sarah (née Child), on 16 November 1805 at Berkeley Square, London. They had eight sons and six daughters.BOOK, Burke, John Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, 1845, H. Colburn, 93,weblink 15 October 2016, en, Their daughter Lady Emily Charlotte Mary remained unmarried but she wrote a number of novels which were published without attribution.DNB, Ponsonby, Emily Charlotte Mary, Through his daughter Lady Augusta Gore, Bessborough was the grandfather of sportsman Spencer Gore, who won the first Wimbledon singles title in 1877, and the Rt. Rev. Charles Gore, the Bishop of Oxford.WEB, Spencer William Gore (1850â1906),weblink Epsom and Ewell History Explorer, 15 October 2016, Children of Lord and Lady Bessborough:BOOK, Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1845, William Pickering, 82,weblink 15 October 2016, en,- Lady Georgiana Sarah Ponsonby (15 August 1807 â 25 June 1861), married Rev. Sackville Bourke, nephew of the Earl of Mayo
- John George Brabazon Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough (14 October 1809 â 28 January 1880)
- William Wentworth Brabazon Ponsonby (29 December 1812 â 8 July 1831)
- Lady Augusta Lavinia Priscilla Ponsonby (11 May 1814 â 19 November 1904), married firstly William Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry, 1834; secondly, the Hon. Charles Alexander Gore, 1845
- Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough (11 September 1815 â 11 March 1895)
- Lady Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby (17 February 1817 â 3 February 1877)
- Lady Maria Jane Elizabeth Ponsonby (14 March 1819 â 13 September 1897), married her cousin Hon. Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley
- Hon. George Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby (17 May 1820 â 1841)
- Reverend Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough (13 August 1821 â 24 February 1906)
- Rt. Hon. Sir Spencer Cecil Ponsonby-Fane (14 March 1824 â 1 December 1915)
- Lady Harriet Frederica Anne Ponsonby (17 June 1825 â 16 November 1900)
- Lady Kathleen Louisa Georgina Ponsonby (30 August 1826 â 9 July 1863), married Frederick Edward Bunbury Tighe
- Son, died in infancy (28 May 1828 â 5 July 1828)
- Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (17 July 1829 â 30 November 1908), married Maria Emma Catherine Coventry
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