Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
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Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane, was an English cricketer and civil servant. He was born in 1824 in Mayfair, the sixth son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough.
Spencer Ponsonby-Fane
A view of the Ponsonby-Fane family home, Brympton d'Evercy, in Somerset.
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
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John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, PC, known as Viscount Duncannon from 1793 to 1844, was a British Whig politician. He was notably Home Secretary in 1834 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1846 and 1847, the first years of the Great Famine.
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, with her sons William and John by John Hoppner (1787)
Bessborough House, County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1818 - the family seat of the Earls of Bessborough