31-809: Bessborough may refer to: Peerage [ edit ] Earl of Bessborough , a title in the Peerage of Ireland Places [ edit ] Bessborough Armoury , a Canadian Forces armoury in Vancouver, British Columbia Bessborough House , the family seat of the Ponsonby dynasty, Earls of Bessborough, in County Kilkenny, Ireland Bessborough Mother & Baby Home , an institution in County Cork, Ireland, 1922–1998 Bessborough Reservoir , south of
62-772: A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . He was styled as Viscount Duncannon between 1993 and 5 April 2002, when he succeeded his father as Earl of Bessborough (I., 1739), Viscount Duncannon (I., 1723), Baron Bessborough (I., 1721), Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby (G.B., 1749), and Baron Duncannon of Bessborough (U.K., 1834). In 2003 he was living at Stansted Park , Rowland's Castle , Hampshire . In 1972, he married Alison Marjorie Storey, daughter of William Henry Storey (1905–1975) and Marjorie Egerton Shakerley (1908–2001). They have three children: The baronies Ponsonby of Shulbrede and de Mauley are in
93-502: A grandson, as well as two younger halfbrothers, both of whom with male issue. There is also an unbroken line of male descendants from the fourth son of the 7th Earl. [REDACTED] Media related to Earls of Bessborough at Wikimedia Commons Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland , or later by monarchs of
124-555: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Earl of Bessborough Earl of Bessborough is a title in the Peerage of Ireland . It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon , who had previously represented Newtownards and County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons . In 1749, he was given the additional title of Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby , in
155-516: The Constitution of Ireland forbidding the state conferring titles of nobility and stating that an Irish citizen may not accept titles of nobility or honour except with the prior approval of the Irish government. In the following table, each peer is listed only by his highest Irish title, showing higher or equal titles in the other peerages. Those peers who are known by a higher title in one of
186-596: The Curzon of Kedleston barony to George Curzon when he became Viceroy of India in 1898. Peers of Ireland have precedence below peers of England, Scotland, and Great Britain of the same rank, and above peers of the United Kingdom of the same rank; but Irish peers created after 1801 yield to United Kingdom peers of earlier creation. Accordingly, the Duke of Abercorn (the junior duke in the Peerage of Ireland) ranks between
217-771: The Duke of Sutherland and the Duke of Westminster (both dukes in the Peerage of the United Kingdom). When one of the Irish representative peers died, the Irish Peerage met to elect his replacement; but the office required to arrange this were abolished as part of the creation of the Irish Free State . The existing representative peers kept their seats in the House of Lords, but they have not been replaced. Since
248-588: The House of Lords at Westminster . Both before and after the Union, Irish peerages were often used as a way of creating peerages which did not grant a seat in the House of Lords of England (before 1707) or Great Britain (after 1707) and so allowed the grantee (such as Clive of India ) to sit in the House of Commons in London. As a consequence, many late-made Irish peers had little or no connection to Ireland, and indeed
279-522: The Irish House of Commons . The first Earl was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He was a Whig politician and served as a Lord of the Treasury , a Lord of the Admiralty and as Joint Postmaster General . His son, the third Earl, represented Knaresborough in the House of Commons as a Whig and like his father served as a Lord of the Admiralty. He was succeeded by his eldest son,
310-595: The Privy Council in 1901. The present family seat is Stansted Park , near Stoughton, West Sussex , acquired by the 9th Earl in 1924. Previous family seats include Bishopscourt House near Bishopscourt, County Kildare , and Parkstead House in Roehampton , London. The family's former main seat in Ireland was Bessborough House , built in the 1740s for the 1st Earl. Located near the village of Piltown in
341-567: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . It is one of the five divisions of Peerages in the United Kingdom . The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are duke , marquess , earl , viscount and baron . As of 2016, there were 135 titles in the Peerage of Ireland extant: two dukedoms, ten marquessates, 43 earldoms, 28 viscountcies, and 52 baronies. However, these titles have no official recognition in Ireland , with Article 40.2 of
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#1732787641767372-469: The 1880 title " Baron Mount Temple , of Mount Temple in the County of Sligo", was recreated in 1932 as "Baron Mount Temple, of Lee in the County of Southampton". In the following table of the Peerage of Ireland as it currently stands, each peer's highest titles in each of the other peerages (if any) are also listed. Irish peers possessed of titles in any of the other peerages (except Scotland, which only got
403-453: The 1937 earldom became extinct. He was succeeded in the other titles by his first cousin, who became the eleventh Earl. He was the son of Major the Hon. Cyril Myles Brabazon Ponsonby, second son of the eighth Earl. As of 2017 , the titles are held by his son, the twelfth Earl, who succeeded in 2002. Several other members of the family have gained distinction. The Hon. John Ponsonby , second son of
434-510: The Act permitted until at least 1856. But the pace then slowed, with only four more being created in the rest of the 19th century, and none in the 20th and 21st centuries. The last two grants of Irish peerages were the promotion of the Marquess of Abercorn (a peerage of Great Britain) to be Duke of Abercorn in the Irish Peerage when he became Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1868 and the granting of
465-523: The County of Leicester, in the Peerage of Great Britain , which entitled him to a seat in the British House of Lords . The titles Viscount Duncannon , of the fort of Duncannon in the County of Wexford , and Baron Bessborough , of Bessborough, Piltown , in the County of Kilkenny , had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1723 and 1721 respectively for Lord Bessborough's father William Ponsonby, who had earlier represented County Kilkenny in
496-608: The House of Lords Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough , KP, CB, CVO (1851–1920), British peer Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough PC GCMG (1880–1956), British businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (born 1892), wife of Vere Ponsonby 9th Earl of Bessborough, Viscount Duncannon. Frederick Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough (1913–1993), British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough (1912–2002), British peer Topics referred to by
527-607: The House of Lords Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (1758–1844), British peer Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (1761–1821), wife of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough and mother of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough PC (1781–1847), British Whig politician John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough , PC (1809–1880), British cricketer and politician Frederick Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough (1815–1895), British peer and cricketer Walter Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough (1821–1906), British peer and member of
558-578: The River Thames in Surrey, England Bessborough School , Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada Delta Bessborough , a hotel in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Bessboro, the founding name of Westport, New York , United States People [ edit ] Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough (1679–1758), British politician and peer William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough PC PC (I) (1704–1793), Irish and English peer and member of
589-628: The death of Francis Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey in 1961, none remains. The right of the Irish Peerage to elect representatives was abolished by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971 . Titles in the Peerage of the United Kingdom have also referred to places in Ireland, for example Baron Arklow (created 1801 and 1881) or Baron Killarney (created 1892 and 1920). Since partition, only places in Northern Ireland have been used, although
620-550: The first Earl, served as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and was the father of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby , and George Ponsonby , Lord Chancellor of Ireland . Major-General the Hon. Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby , second son of the third Earl, was the father of General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby , who was the father of Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby , and Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede . The Hon. William Ponsonby , third son of
651-466: The fourth Earl . He was a prominent Whig politician and served as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests , as Home Secretary , as Lord Privy Seal and as First Lord of the Admiralty . In 1834, ten years before he succeeded his father, he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in his own right as Baron Duncannon , of Bessborough in County Kilkenny . His eldest son, the fifth Earl,
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#1732787641767682-707: The names of some Irish peerages refer to places in Great Britain (for example, the Earldom of Mexborough refers to a place in England and the Earldom of Ranfurly refers to a village in Scotland). Irish peerages continued to be created for almost a century after the union, although the treaty of union placed restrictions on their numbers: three needed to become extinct before a new peerage could be granted, until there were only one hundred Irish peers (exclusive of those who held any peerage of Great Britain subsisting at
713-529: The other peerages are listed in italics . A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages . Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords , on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as they died) to
744-422: The remainder for the earldom of Bessborough. The present holders – Frederick Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede , and Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley – are both fifth cousins of the 12th Earl of Bessborough (and of each other, both being descendants of younger sons of the 3rd Earl; see chart below). It is however unlikely that either of them would inherit the earldom, as the 12th Earl has two sons and
775-530: The right to an automatic seat in 1963, with the Peerage Act 1963 ) had automatic seats in the House of Lords until 1999. The Earl of Darnley inherited the Baron Clifton in the Peerage of England in 1722–1900 and 1937–1999 as the barony is in writ . In Ireland, barony may also refer to a semi-obsolete political subdivision of a county . There is no connection between such a barony and
806-419: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bessborough . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bessborough&oldid=1131228510 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
837-405: The south of County Kilkenny , the house was sold by the 9th Earl in the late 1930s. Bessborough House is now part of Kildalton Agricultural College. Myles Fitzhugh Longfield Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough (born 16 February 1941), is the son of the 11th Earl and his wife Patricia Minnigerode. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge , where he graduated MA . He is also
868-469: The third Earl, was created Baron de Mauley in 1838 while Lady Caroline Ponsonby , only daughter of the third Earl, was the wife of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , but is perhaps best remembered for her affair with Lord Byron . Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane , sixth son of the fourth Earl, was for many years Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department and was admitted to
899-439: The time of the union, or of the United Kingdom created since the union). There was a spate of creations of Irish peerages from 1797 onward, mostly peerages of higher ranks for existing Irish peers, as part of the negotiation of the Act of Union; this ended in the first week of January 1801, but the restrictions of the Act were not applied to the last few peers. In the following decades, Irish peerages were created at least as often as
930-527: Was a Liberal politician and held office under Lord Russell and William Ewart Gladstone as Lord Steward of the Household . He was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the sixth Earl. He never married and on his death in 1906, the titles passed to his younger brother, the seventh Earl. He was a clergyman. His grandson, the ninth Earl, was a Conservative politician and also served as Governor General of Canada from 1931 to 1935. In 1937, he
961-597: Was created Earl of Bessborough in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son, the tenth Earl, sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served as Joint Under-Secretary of State for Education in 1964 and as Minister of State at the Ministry of Technology in 1970. He was later a member of the European Parliament . Lord Bessborough had one daughter but no sons, and on his death in 1993,