Alice Elizabeth Ponsonby

Charles married Mary Priscilla Bromley Davenport [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Mar 1921
• Military Service: Between 1945 and 1946
• Residence: 1949, Westminster, London
• Residence: 1951, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 1952, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 1956, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 1957, Windsor, Berkshire
• Arrival: 26 Nov 1961, Hamilton, Bermuda
• Residence: 1969, Windsor, Berkshire
• Residence: 1982, Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised 22 March 1921 at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Westminster. Educated at Eton College and Oxford (Balliol College).

1941 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards. 1942-45 served in Second World War in North Africa and Italy. Wounded in Italy. Captain 1943. Awarded Military Cross.

From 1946 worked initially with Helbert Wagg & Co., Merchant Bankers and, after the merger in April 1962, with J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd. A Managing Director of Helbert Wagg since January 1957 and of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd., since 1962.

Director of: The Associated Biscuit Manufacturers Ltd.; Australian & International Trust Ltd.; City & Commercial Investment Trust Ltd.; The Colville Estate Ltd. (Chairman); The Equitable Life Assurance Society; Fundinvest Ltd.; Romney Trust Ltd.; Rowntree mackintosh Ltd.; Schroder Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd.; Schroder Properties Ltd.; Triplevest Ltd.; Updown Investment Co. Ltd.; Cheapside Dollar Fund (New York).

Church Commissioner (since 1963), serving on the Assets Committee, which looks after their Stock Exchange securities, urban property and farmland. A member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster. Trustee of The Dulverton Trust. Deputy Chairman of London House for Overseas Graduates. Trustee of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Trust. Trustee of the Oxford and District Hospitals Improvement Fund. Vice-President of the Oxfordshire Playing Fields Association, Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Governor of the Church School at Wootton and Member of the Wootton PCC. Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1 January 1980.

Runs a small Dairy Farm at Woodleys, Woodstock. Interested in forestry and gardening.

Four sons: Charles Ashley, born 1951, Chartered Account, and married Mary Bromley Davenport in 1983; Rupert Spencer, born 1953, Scrap Metal Merchant, and married Amanda Colvin in 1985; Luke Arthur, born 1957, 9/12th Lancers; John Piers, born 1962, Page of Honour to HM The Queen 1976-1978,

Clubs: Brook's, Pratt's.

Ashley married Lady Martha Butler on 14 Sep 1950 in Westminster, London. Martha (daughter of James Arthur Norman Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, CVO, MC and Jessie Carlos Clarke Marchioness of Ormonde) was born on 14 Jan 1926 in Farnborough, Berkshire; died on 8 Aug 2010 in Grim's Dyke Farm, Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1HJ; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: New York, USA
• Departure: 23 Dec 1954, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 11 Nov 1958, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 26 Nov 1961, Hamilton, Bermuda

Notes:

Younger daughter of 6th Marquess of Ormonde. Educated privately.

Nursed during the Second World War with the Civil Nursing Reserve. On Committee of Friends of the Oxfordshire Churches.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1952, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Age: 73

Notes:

1st Baronet (created 1956). 1st son of Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby (born 1851), for whom see 'The Ponsonby Family', by Sir John Ponsonby (1929), and de Mauley in 'Burke's Peerage', by his 1st wife Emily Dora (died 1897), daughter of Octavius E. Coope, MP. Born in Grosvenor Street, Westminster. Educated at Eton College 1893-8, matric: Oxford (Balliol College), 1898, BA 1901.

Admitted a solicitor 1904. Joined West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry 1910 - subsequently The 97th (Kent Yeo.) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Territorial Army - Lieut. April 1914; Capt. 1917; Major 1920; Lieut-Col. 1930. Served in the Great War in Gallipoli and Egypt with West Kent (Q.O.) Yeomanry which became, January 1917-June 1919, the 10th (Yeo.) Battalion of The Buffs, with whom he served in Palestine and France. Temporary Lieut-Col. 1919 (?Jan). Croix de Guerre (avec palme), May, 1918. British War Medal; Allies' (Victory) Medal. Territorial Decoration 1925. Managing Director of British Central Africa, Ld., 1922-32; Director of The Uganda Co., Ld.; On the Council of the Joint East African Board, the Africa Society, etc.; Dep. Chairman of the East African section of London Chamber of Commerce. Hon. Member of the House Committee of the London Hospital. In Masonry, Past Provincial Guard Swordbearer of Oxfordshire.

Lieut-Col. and Brevet Col. 97th (Kent Yeo.) Field Brig. R.A. 1930-36, and Hon. Col. 297th (Kent Yeo.) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt. RA 1942-9; Deputy Leiutenant for Oxon; appointed Parliamentary Private Sec. to Sec. of State for War 1940, and to Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs 1941. Chairman of Council of Royal Commonwealth Society 1954-57; President of Royal African Society 1963-70; MP for Sevenoaks Division of Kent (C) July 1935-February 1950. Author of West Kent (QO) 'Yeomanry 1914-19; Woodstock, the History of an Oxfordshire Parish, 1946; 'Wootton, The Anatomy of an Oxfordshire Village, 1968'; and 'Ponsonby Remembers'. Awarded medal of Royal Society of Arts for a paper on Nyasaland, 1914.

Charles married The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP on 23 Jul 1912 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Winifred (daughter of The Hon. Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon and Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon) was born on 29 Mar 1886 in 34 York Terrace, St Marylebone, Middlesex; died on 11 Mar 1984 in Garrett's House, Woodstock; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 May 1886, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Parish Church
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 25; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

1st daughter of Herbert Cokayne (Gibbs) Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 8 may 1886 at Aldenham.

Justice of the Peace, 1942-51. A director of Southover Manor School, Lewes. She and her husband lived from 1925-1939 at Cobbe Place, Beddingham, Sussex, and from 1940-1976 at Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxon.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Ireland
• Residence: 1901, Cranbrook, Kent; Relation to Head: Son
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Boarder
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1920

James married Jessie Carlos Clarke Marchioness of Ormonde. Jessie was born on 8 Sep 1896 in Sunninghill, Berkshire; died on 3 Dec 1969 in Wokingham, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Sunninghill, Berkshire; Relation to Head: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Sherborne St John, Hampshire; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Sister-in-law