Of Woolbeding in Sussex; he was the son of William Brabazon Ponsonby, first Baron Ponsonby, and was MP for County Kilkenny (1806), County Cork (1807-12), and Youghal (1826-32).

REFERENCES TO Hon. George Ponsonby:

Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 29 January 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)