John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, 10th Earl of Waterford( 1601 – 8 February 1654), was an English nobleman.
Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (27 October 1880 – 10 March 1956) was an Anglo-Irish businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 14th since Canadian Confederation.
Born and educated in England into 'the Ascendancy', the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, he graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University before entering politics as a member of the London County Council and then, in 1910, as a member of the British House of Commons.
Upon the death of his grandfather 10 years later, Ponsonby succeeded as Earl of Bessborough and took his seat in the House of Lords.
He was in 1931 appointed as Governor General by King George V, on the recommendation of British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, to replace The Earl of Willingdon as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by The Lord Tweedsmuir in 1935.
Lord Bessborough is remembered for promoting new communication technologies as well as giving support to the Canadian population during the Great Depression.
After the end of his viceregal tenure, he returned to London, where he continued in business and also work with the Dominions Office and the Foreign Office before his death in March 1956.
The 9th Lord Bessborough was the last Earl of Bessborough to own Bessborough House, the Ponsonby family's ancestral seat near the village of Piltown in the south of County Kilkenny in Ireland.
The country house was largely built in the 1740s for the 1st Earl.
It was gutted by fire during the Irish Civil War in February 1923.
The 9th Lord Bessborough had the house rebuilt in the late 1920s.
However, he sold the house in the late 1930s as he largely lived in Britain.
The house now forms the main part of Kildalton Agricultural College.
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough( 24 January 1758 – 3 February 1844), styled the Viscount Duncannon from 1758 – 1793, was an Anglo- Irish peer.
Alexander Leslie-Melville, 10th Earl of Leven
Alexander Leslie- Melville, 10th Earl of Leven, 9th Earl of Melville( 1817 – 1889)
He was the son of John Leslie- Melville, 9th Earl of Leven.
He was a partner in Williams.
Deacon& Co, and was a Representative Peer for Scotland( Conservative) from 1880 to 1889.
He was succeeded by his half- brother Ronald Ruthven Leslie- Melville, 11th Earl of Leven, 10th Earl of Melville( 1835 – 1906).
Myles Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough
Myles Fitzhugh Longfield Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough( born 16 February 1941), known as Viscount Duncannon from 1993 until 2002, is a British peer.
He is the son of Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough and Patricia, Countess of Bessborough, daughter of Col. Fitzhugh Lee Minnigerode.
Walter Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough
Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough( 13 August 1821 – 24 February 1906), was a British peer and member of the House of Lords.
He was the fifth son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife Lady Maria Fane.
He inherited the earldom on 11 March 1895 when his elder brother Frederick Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough, died unmarried and without a male heir.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb( née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828), known as the Honourable Caroline Ponsonby until her father succeeded to the earldom in 1793, was an Anglo- Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for her work" Glenarvon", a Gothic novel.
She is also known for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812.
Her husband was The Hon. William Lamb, who later became Viscount Melbourne and Prime Minister.
However, she was never the Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage.
She was the only daughter of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, an Anglo- Irish peer, and Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough, and related to other leading society ladies, being the niece of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and cousin( by marriage) of Annabella, Lady Byron.
Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough
Arthur Mountifort Longfield Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough( 11 December 1912 – 5 April 2002), was a British peer.
He was the son of Maj.
Hon. Cyril Myles Brabazon Ponsonby( 1881–1915), second son of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife Rita Narcissa Longfield, daughter of Lt. Col. Mountifort John Courtenay Longfield.
He inherited the earldom on 5 December 1993 when his first cousin Frederick Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough, died without a male heir.
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde, 3rd Earl of Ossory, Viscount Thurles( c. 153122 November 1614), was an Irish peer and the son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and Lady Joan Fitzgerald daughter and heiress- general of James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond.
He was Lord Treasurer of Ireland and a very prominent personage during the latter part of the 16th century.
Frederick Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough
Frederick Edward Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough DL (29 March 1913 – 5 December 1993), styled Viscount Duncannon from 1920 to 1956, was a British diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer.

Question: When was Frederick Ponsonby, 10Th Earl Of Bessborough's father born?
Answer: 27 October 1880