Frederick Edward Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough, styled Viscount Duncannon from 1920 to 1956, was a British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer.
Earl Bessborough in 1956
Memorial in Stansted Park
Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough,, was a French noblewoman who married into the English aristocracy and served as Viceregal Consort of Canada in the 1930s.
Frederick Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough
…Conservative politician, and peer. Ponsonby was the eldest and only surviving son of Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife, the former Roberte Poupart de Neuflize, only daughter of Baron Jean de Neuflize, a Parisian banker. His father was an Anglo-Irish businessman and politician who graduated with a law degree…
The Earl and Countess of Bessborough, 1933
Viscountess Duncannon with her eldest son, Frederick, c. September 1913