Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, 1st Baronet, TD, DL (2 September 1879 – 28 January 1976), was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1935 to 1950.
A member of the prominent Ponsonby family, he was the son of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby, fifth son of Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley, and Emily Dora Coope.[1] He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1900 to 1903.[2]
Ponsonby was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Sevenoaks at the by-election there in 1935. He held the seat until the 1950 general election.[3] He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden from 1941 to 1945.
He was honorary Colonel of the Kent Yeomanry from 1942 to 1949. He was created a baronet, of Wootton, in 1956.
Ponsonby married Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, daughter of Herbert Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon, and Anna Maria Durant, on 23 July 1912. They had four daughters and a son who succeeded to the baronetcy.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b The peerage.com
- ^ "Player profile: Charles Ponsonby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
External links
edit
   | This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1870s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |