Baron de Mauley (original) (raw)

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Baron de Mauley, of Canford in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 10 July 1838 for the Whig politician the Hon. William Ponsonby, who had earlier represented Poole, Knaresborough and Dorset in the House of Commons. He was the third son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough, an Anglo-Irish peer, and his wife Lady Henrietta Spencer, daughter of the 1st Earl Spencer. He married Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, the daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury. She was one of the co-heirs to the ancient barony by writ of Mauley (or Maulay), which superseded the feudal barony the caput of which was at Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire,[2] which barony by writ had become extinct in 1415.

Their son, later the 2nd Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Poole and Dungarvon. He married his first cousin Lady Maria Ponsonby, daughter of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.

Their eldest son, the 3rd Baron, never married, so the barony was inherited by his brother, who became the 4th Baron. He married the Hon. Madeline Hanbury-Tracy, daughter of the 2nd Baron Sudeley. They had two sons, Capt. Gerald Ponsonby, an officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who was killed in the First World War, and Hubert, who became the 5th Baron.

The 5th Baron married Elgiva Margaret Dundas, a great-granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Zetland. They had two sons. The eldest, the 6th Baron, married Helen Alice Douglas, a granddaughter of the 19th Earl of Morton; the marriage was childless. Their second son, Col. Hon. Thomas Ponsonby, an officer of the Wessex Yeomanry who held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, married Maxine Henrietta Thellusson, whose great-great-great-grandfather Charles Thellusson, Member of Parliament for Evesham, was the younger brother of the 1st Baron Rendlesham.

As of 2024[update], the title is held by their eldest son, the 7th Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 2002. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a Conservative. He was elected in 2005 and thereby became the first hereditary peer having succeeded to his title after the House of Lords Act of 1999, to have obtained an elective hereditary peers seat in the House of Lords. In July 2018, the Queen appointed the 7th Baron to succeed the 3rd Baron Vestey as Master of the Horse. The appointment took effect on 1 January 2019.[3]

The Hon. Ashley Ponsonby, younger son of the 1st Baron, was a Liberal politician. Another member of this branch of the Ponsonby family was the Conservative politician Charles Ponsonby, who was created a baronet in 1956. He was the son of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby, fifth son of the 2nd Baron.

Former Air Vice Marshal John Ponsonby was the son of officer, diplomat and politician Myles Ponsonby, and a grandson of Victor Coope Ponsonby, the fourth son of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby.

Baron de Mauley (1838)

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The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, the Hon.[a] (Ashley) George Ponsonby (born 1959).[5]
The title next falls to Sir Charles Ponsonby, 3rd Baronet (born 1951), a third cousin of the present holder and his brother. He is the great-grandson of the Hon. Edwin Ponsonby, fifth son of the 2nd Baron.

Title succession chart

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Title succession chart, Barons de Mauley
William Ponsonby 1st Baron de Mauley1787–1855 Charles Ponsonby 2nd Baron de Mauley1815–1896 William Ponsonby3rd Baron de Mauley1843–1918George Ponsonby1844–1845Maurice Ponsonby4th Baron de Mauley1846–1945Hon.Frederick Ponsonby1847–1933Hon.Edwin Ponsonby1851–1939 Ponsonby baronetcy Capt.Gerald Ponsonby1876–1914Hubert Ponsonby5th Baron de Mauley1878–1962Sir Charles Ponsonby 1st Baronet1879–1976 Gerald Ponsonby6th Baron de Mauley1921–2002Col. Hon.Thomas Ponsonby1930–2001Sir Ashley Ponsonby2nd Baronet1921–2010 **Rupert Ponsonby 7th Baron de Mauley**born 1957Hon.[a]George Ponsonbyborn 1959Sir Charles Ponsonby3rd Baronetborn 1951

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b The present holder's brother was allowed by a warrant of precedence from the Queen to use the style of Honourable, because their father would have held the peerage but for his predeceasing the previous holder.[4]

  2. ^ "No. 19629". The London Gazette. 26 June 1838. p. 1445.

  3. ^ Sanders, Ian. English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, pp. 66–67, Barony of Mulgrave.

  4. ^ "Appendix To Court Circular". Court Circular. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.

  5. ^ "No. 56937". The London Gazette. 16 May 2003. p. 6081.

  6. ^ "Burke's Peerage & Baronetage | De Mauley of Canford". Burke's Peerage (107th ed.). 2003. p. 1081. Retrieved 23 December 2020.