William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley

William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley

William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley (31 July 1787–16 May 1855) was a British peer and Whig politician and the youngest child of 3rd Earl of Bessborough.

On 8 August 1814, he married Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper (the only daughter and heir of the 5th Earl of Shaftesbury and a co-heir of the medieval Barony of Mauley) and they had three children:

*Hon. Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper (1815-1896)
*Hon. Ashley George John (1831-1898)
*Hon. Frances Anne Georgiana (d. 1910), married the 9th Lord Kinnard


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