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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Viscount Dungannon

Born: 27 October 1880

Died: 10 March 1956

Peerages

Viscount Dungannon - 24 February 1906

9th Earl of Bessborough - 1 December 1920

1st Earl of Bessborough - 2 June 1937

Member of Privy Council - 1931

son of Edward Ponsonby

Elections fought

17 January 1906		Carmarthen District of Boroughs	Conservative Party	1,808	31.66
17 January 1910		Cheltenham	Conservative Party	3,988	50.88
5 December 1910		Cheltenham	Conservative Party	3,753	49.39
23 June 1913		Dover	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
14 December 1918		Dover	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	11,249	68.72
1 December 1920 Succession of Viscount Dungannon to Peerage - 9th Earl of Bessborough and Baron Duncannon.