Rev. Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough (13 August 1821 – 24 February 1906) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and Anglican priest.

Early life and education

Ponsonby was born in

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, London, the fifth son of

John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (31 August 1781 – 16 May 1847), known as Viscount Duncannon from 1793 to 1844, was a British Whig (British political party), Whig politician. He w ...

, and his wife Lady Maria Fane. His parents had 14 children before his mother died in 1834. His father died in 1847. He was educated at

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and

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Career

Ordained a priest in the

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in 1845, he was, between 1846 and 1894 he acted as Rector for the parishes of Canford Magna, Wiltshire; Beer Ferris, Devon; Marston Bigot, Somerset; and Stutton, Suffolk. Ponsonby inherited the earldom on 11 March 1895 after the deaths of his elder brothers

John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough John George Brabazon Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough (14 October 1809 – 28 January 1880), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1844 until 1847, was a British cricketer, courtier and Liberal politician. Background Born in London, Ponsonby was th ...

(1809–1880) and Frederick Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough (1815–1895) without male heirs.

Family

On 15 January 1850, he married Lady Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot, daughter of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans, and his wife Lady Jemima Cornwallis. Together they had eight children: *

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(1 March 1851 – 1 December 1920) *Lady Maria Ponsonby (4 June 1852 – 19 November 1949) *Hon. Cyril Walter Ponsonby (8 September 1853 – 29 November 1927), married Emily Harriet Eyre Addington *Hon. Granville Ponsonby (13 September 1854 – 24 February 1924), married Mabel Jackson *Hon. Arthur Cornwallis Ponsonby (8 January 1856 – 25 April 1918), married Kathleen Eva Sillery *Lady Ethel Jemima Ponsonby (8 April 1857 – 22 June 1940), married

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*Hon. Walter Gerald Ponsonby (31 July 1859 – 28 April 1934) *Lady Sara Kathleen Ponsonby (5 August 1861 – 10 June 1936), married Maj. Charles Lancelot Andrews Skinner

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* 1821 births 1906 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Ordained peers

Walter Walter may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walter (name), including a list of people and fictional and mythical characters with the given name or surname * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–19 ...

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