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Sysonby, Baron (UK, 1935 - 2009)

Creation: let. pat. 24 Jun 1935

Extinct: 23 Oct 2009

Family name: Ponsonby

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Arms:

Gules a Chevron between three Combs Argent

Crest:

Out of a Ducal Coronet Azure three Arrows points downwards one in pale and two in saltire entwined at the intersection by a Snake proper

Supporters:

On either side a Lion guardant crowned with a Saxon Crown Or and charged on the shoulder with a Key wards downwards and inwards Azure

Motto:

Pro Rege Lege Grege (For the king, the law and the people)

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Frederick Edward Grey [Ponsonby], 1st Baron Sysonby, GCB GCVO PC

2nd son of Gen Rt Hon Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby GCB GCVO (by his wife Hon Mary Elizabeth Bulteel VA, Maid-of-Honour to Queen Victoria and 1st dau. of John Crocker Bulteel MP, of Flete, co. Devon, by his third cousin and wife Lady Elizabeth Grey, dau. of Charles [Grey], 2nd Earl Grey), 1st son of Maj Gen Hon Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby GCMG KCB KCH KMT KSG (by his wife Lady Emily Charlotte Bathurst, yst. dau. of Henry [Bathurst], 3rd Earl Bathurst), 2nd son of Frederick [Ponsonby], 3rd Earl of Bessborough

born

16 Sep 1867

mar.

17 May 1899 Victoria Lily Hegan Kennard (d. 2 Jun 1955), 1st dau. of Col Edmund Hegan Kennard MP, of Great Tangley Manor, Guildford, co. Surrey, by his wife Agnes Hegan, 2nd dau. and cohrss. of Joseph Hegan, of Dawpool, co. Chester

children

1. Victor Alexander Henry Desmond Ponsonby (b. 19 Jun 1900 ; dvp. 24 Nov 1900)

2. Hon Edward Gaspard Ponsonby, later 2nd Baron Sysonby

1. Hon Loelia Mary Ponsonby (b. 1902; dsp. 1993), mar. (1) 20 Feb 1930 (div. 1947) as his third wife Hugh Richard Arthur [Grosvenor], 2nd Duke of Westminster, and (2) 1 Aug 1969 as his second wife Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay, 1st Bt.

died

20 Oct 1935

created

24 Jun 1935 Baron Sysonby, of Wonersh in the County of Surrey

suc. by

son

note

Equerry-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria 1894-1901;  MVO 1897; Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse and Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Victoria 1897-1901;  CVO 1901; Equerry-in-Ordinary, Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse and Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward VII 1901-10;  CB 1906; KCVO 1910; Equerry-in-Ordinary to King George V 1910-1935;  Privy Councillor 1914; Keeper of the Privy Purse 1914-1920;  KCB 1918; Treasurer to the King and Keeper of the Privy Purse 1920-28;  GCVO 1921; GCB 1926; Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle and Constable of the Round Tower 1928-35;  Receiver-General of the Duchy of Lancaster

Edward Gaspard [Ponsonby], 2nd Baron Sysonby, DSO

born

7 Jun 1903

mar.

2 Oct 1936 Sallie Whitney Monkland (former wife of George Edward Monkland;  mar. (3) 15 Feb 1958 as his third wife Maj Edward Robert Francis Compton, of Newby Hall, Ripon, co. York;  d. 1979), dau. of Dr Leonard Cutler Sanford, of New York, USA

children

1. Hon John Frederick Ponsonby, later 3rd Baron Sysonby

1. Hon Carolyn Mary Ponsonby (b. 9 Nov 1938; d. 26 May 2023)

died

21 Jan 1956

suc. by

son

note

Page of Honour to King George V 1916-19; served in World War II

John Frederick [Ponsonby], 3rd Baron Sysonby

born

5 Aug 1945

died

23 Oct 2009

On the death of the 3rd Baron Sysonby the Barony of Sysonby became extinct.

 Last updated 21 Nov 2009

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