Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker (12 June 1762 – 13 December 1834) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was born Chambré Brabazon Ponsonby, son of

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by his third wife Mary, daughter of Sir William Barker, 3rd Baronet. He adopted the surname of Barker on inheriting

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from his uncle Sir William Barker, 4th Baronet in 1818. His elder half sister, daughter of Louisa, daughter of Henry Lyons of Belmont, his father's second wife, was Sarah Ponsonby, (1755–1831), the younger of the two

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. Ponsonby-Barker represented

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in the

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from 1790 to 1798. He was married on 4 June 1791 to Lady Henrietta Taylour, daughter of

Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, KP, PC (Ire) (20 October 1724 – 14 February 1795) was an Irish peer and politician. Early life He was the oldest son of the former Sarah Graham and Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Baronet, a Member of the Parlia ...

. They had three sons and a daughter, Catherine Jane, who married

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm 1762 births 1834 deaths Irish MPs 1790–1797 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Waterford constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub