Major-General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby was a British Army officer. He served in numerous engagements in the Napoleonic Wars and is most famous for having miraculously survived a series of majo
Major-General Sir Frederick Ponsonby by Thomas Heaphy
Plinth of Ponsonby's Column, a monumental column erected in Valletta in 1838. The column was destroyed by lightning in 1864, and only the plinth survives today.
Henrietta Frances Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, was the wife of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; the couple were the parents of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her father, John Spencer, 1st Earl
Frederick Ponsonby (British Army officer)
…Ponsonby was the second of three sons of Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Dungannon (who succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Bessborough in 1793), and his wife Henrietta (née Spencer), Countess of Bessborough. He was the brother of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley, and his sister was the "notorious" Lady…
Portrait by Angelica Kauffman, 1793
Lady Georgiana Spencer, Henrietta Spencer and George, Viscount Althorp, by Angelica Kauffman, c. 1766
Henrietta Ponsonby with her sons Frederick and John, by John Hoppner (1787)