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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ponsonby, John Ponsonby, Viscount, 1770?-1855 NRA: Ponsonby John (c 1770-1855) Viscount Ponsonby diplomat DNB: Ponsonby, John, Viscount Ponsonby (c.1770-1855), diplomatist LBT ID: LdPonso1 VIAF ID: 25349445 LOC ID: n88286107 | B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1855-02-21 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
The son of William Brabazon Ponsonby, first Baron Ponsonby (d. 1806); he was a Whig MP
for Galway Town (1801-02); when not having affairs with Lady Jersey and Harriette Wilson he
pursued a career as a diplomat. | |
REFERENCES TO John Ponsonby, viscount Ponsonby: Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [16] June 1808 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 17 February 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 April 1832 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Countess of Blessington to Peter George Patmore, [December? 1832] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal
Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their
Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1:
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