NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ponsonby, Frederick Cavendish, 1783-1838 NRA: Ponsonby Sir Frederick Cavendish (1783-1837) Knight Major General Governor of Malta DNB: Ponsonby, Sir Frederic Cavendish (1783-1837), army officer LBT ID: FrPoson1837 VIAF ID: 6786174 LOC ID: n2004063223 | B/BAP: 1783-07-06 DIED: 1837-01-11 |
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The second son of the third earl of Bessborough, and brother of Lady Caroline Lamb; he
was MP (1806-30); after a distinguished career in the Peninsular War and being wounded at
Waterloo he was governor of Malta (1826-35). | |
REFERENCES TO Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby: James Hodgson to Francis Hodgson, 16 May 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1:
¶ 3 John Herman Merivale to Francis Hodgson, [May 1812] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1:
¶ 1 Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Melbourne, [June?] 1815 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1:
¶ 2 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 11 November 1821 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 2 Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Morgan, [June 1825?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1831 Found 1:
¶ 30 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XVI. Found 1:
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