Rev. Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby , Venn's entry reads: Ponsonby, the Hon. Walter William Brabazon. College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1840 Born: Aug. 13, 1821 Died: Feb. 24, 1906 Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, July 10, 1840. [3rd] s. of John William, Viscount Duncannon (Christ Church, Oxford, 1799) (and Maria, dau. of John (Fane), 10th Earl of Westmorland). B. [Aug. 13, 1821], at Roehampton, Surrey. School, private. Matric. Michs. 1840; M.A. 1843. Ord. deacon (Gloucester) May 18, 1845; priest, Dec. 21, 1845; C. of Hatherop, Gloucs., 1845-6. V. of Canford Magna (with Chapelry of Kinson), Dorset, 1846-69. R. of Beer-Ferris, Devon, 1869-75. R. of Marston-Bigot, Somerset, 1875-80. R. of Stutton, Suffolk, 1880-94. Married, Jan. 15, 1850, Lady Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot, only dau. of Edward Granville, 3rd Earl of St Germans, and had issue. Succeeded his brother, Frederick G. B. (1834), as 7th Earl of Bessborough, Mar. 12, 1895. Died Feb. 24, 1906. (Crockford; Burke, P. and B.)
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