Earl of Bessborough
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Earl of Bessborough is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, who had previously represented Newtownards and County Kildare in the Iri
Bessborough House (1818) (by John Preston Neale)
Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, was an Anglo-Irish businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the fourteenth since Canadian Confederation.
Earl of Bessborough
…Department and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1901. The present family seat is Stansted Park, near Stoughton, West Sussex, acquired by the 9th Earl in 1924. Previous family seats include Bishopscourt House near Bishopscourt, County Kildare, and Parkstead House in Roehampton, London. The family's…
Bessborough c. 1935
The Earl of Bessborough and his wife Roberte, 1933
The Delta Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon
Stansted House, near Chichester, Sussex, was purchased by Lord Bessborough in 1924