Baron de Mauley, of Canford in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 10 July 1838 for the Whig politician the Hon. William Ponsonby, who had earlier represented Poole, Knaresborough and Dorset in the House of Commons. He was the third son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough, an Anglo-Irish peer, and the husband of Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, one of the co-heirs to the ancient barony by writ of Mauley (or Maulay), which superseded the feudal barony the caput of which was at Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire,[2] which barony by writ had become extinct in 1415. His son, later the second Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Poole and Dungarvon.

As of 2018, the title is held by the latter's great-great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 2002. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a Conservative. He was elected in 2005 and thereby became the first hereditary peer having succeeded to his title after the House of Lords Act of 1999, to have obtained an elective hereditary peers seat in the House of Lords. In July 2018, the Queen appointed the seventh Baron to succeed the third Baron Vestey as Master of the Horse. The appointment took effect on 1 January 2019.[3]

The Hon. Ashley Ponsonby, younger son of the first Baron, was a Liberal politician. Another member of this branch of the Ponsonby family was the Conservative politician Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet. He was the son of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby, fifth son of the second Baron de Mauley.

Former Air Vice Marshal John Ponsonby was the son of officer, diplomat and politician Myles Ponsonby, and a grandson of Victor Coope Ponsonby, the fourth son of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby.

Barons de Mauley (1838)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, the Hon.[lower-alpha 1] (Ashley) George Ponsonby (born 1959).[5]
The title next falls to Sir Charles Ponsonby, 3rd Baronet (born 1951), a third cousin of the present holder and his brother. He is the great-grandson of the Hon. Edwin Ponsonby, fifth son of the 2nd Baron de Mauley.

Male-line family tree

Male-line family tree, Barons de Mauley
William Ponsonby
1st Baron de Mauley
1787–1855
Charles Ponsonby
2nd Baron de Mauley
1815–1896
William Ponsonby
3rd Baron de Mauley
1843–1918		George Ponsonby
1844–1845		Maurice Ponsonby
4th Baron de Mauley
1846–1945		Hon.
Frederick Ponsonby
1847–1933		Hon.
Edwin Ponsonby
1851–1939
Ponsonby baronetcy
Capt.
Gerald Ponsonby
1876–1914		Hubert Ponsonby
5th Baron de Mauley
1878–1962		Sir Charles Ponsonby
1st Baronet
1879–1976
Gerald Ponsonby
6th Baron de Mauley
1921–2002		Col. Hon.
Thomas Ponsonby
1930–2001		Sir Ashley Ponsonby
2nd Baronet
1921–2010
Rupert Ponsonby
7th Baron de Mauley
born 1957		Hon.[lower-alpha 1]
George Ponsonby
born 1959		Sir Charles Ponsonby
3rd Baronet
born 1951

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. 1 2 The present holder's brother was allowed by a warrant of precedence from the Queen to use the style of Honourable, because their father would have held the peerage but for his predeceasing the previous holder.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "No. 19629". The London Gazette. 26 June 1838. p. 1445.
  2. ↑ Sanders, Ian. English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, pp. 66–67, Barony of Mulgrave.
  3. ↑ "Appendix To Court Circular". Court Circular. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "No. 56937". The London Gazette. 16 May 2003. p. 6081.
  5. ↑ "Burke's Peerage & Baronetage | De Mauley of Canford". Burke's Peerage (107th ed.). 2003. p. 1081. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
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