Matthew Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
Matthew Henry Herbert Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (26 July 1904 – 29 April 1976) was a British peer.
Life
Ponsonby was the son of
Ponsonby had some difficulty with the
Ponsonby married Elizabeth Mary Bigham (1905-1985), a daughter of Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey, and they had five children: Thomas Arthur Ponsonby, later 3rd Baron (1930–1990); William Nicholas Ponsonby (1933–1942); Laura Mary Ponsonby (1935–2016); Rose Magdalen Ponsonby (born 1940) and Catherine Virginia Ponsonby (born 1944).[1]
In 1930, Ponsonby’s father was created
Arms
Ponsonby’s coat of arms is blazoned Gules a chevron between three combs argent. The crest, out of a ducal coronet, is azure three arrows, point downwards, one in pale and two in saltire, entwined at the intersection by a snake proper. The motto is “Pro Rege Lege Grege”, meaning For the King, the Law, and the People,[7]
Notes
- ^ a b c Burke's Peerage, vol. 3 (2003), p. 3171
- ^ a b Raymond A. Jones, Arthur Ponsonby: the politics of life (1989), p. 133
- ^ John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: 1924-1966
- ^ John Howard Wilson, in Donat Gallagher, Ann Pasternak Slater, A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh, (London: Fairleigh Dickinson, 2011), p. 40
- ^ Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling: Infants of the spring (Heinemann, 1976), p. 158
- ISBN 9780226677217. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage (2000)