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28 de may. de 2024 · Caroline Lamb’s mother, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, also had numerous lovers including the playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Lord Granville Leveson-Gower. Ponsonby had two children with Leveson-Gower and manged to conceal her pregnancies from her husband.
30 de may. de 2024 · Ponsonby. PONSONBY, in the ward of Allerdale above Derwent, lies near Calderbridge, where is a post-office, and nearly eleven miles south of Whitehaven. The manor belonged, at a very early period, to the descendants of FitzPonson, who were called Ponsonby before the reign of Edward II.
Hace 6 días · Lady Bessborough and her family circle. Murray, 1940. xx, 307pp. [Contains extracts from the social diary of HENRIETTA FRANCES, COUNTESS OF BESSBOROUGH, March–April 1789.]
30 de may. de 2024 · The main east and west fronts have colonnaded stone porticos and pediments. The rooms are finely proportioned and contain many good pictures, particularly portraits of the family of Ponsonby, Earls of Bessborough, and the great tapestry of the Battle of Wynendaal presented to the 1st Lord Scarborough, who was one of Marlborough's ...
23 de may. de 2024 · He had recorded affairs with Frances Crewe, Lady Crewe (he dedicated his 1777 play The School for Scandal to her), and a disastrous affair with Harriet Spencer, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, beginning in 1789.
9 de may. de 2024 · Bessborough House, the ancestral residence of the Ponsonby family close to Piltown in County Kilkenny, Ireland, was owned by the 9th Lord Bessborough, the final Earl of Bessborough. For the 1st Lord, the country home was mainly constructed in the 1740s.
26 de may. de 2024 · Ponsonby succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl of Bessborough, causing a by-election.
