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William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough PC PC (Ire) (1704 – 11 March 1793) was a British politician and public servant. He was an Irish and English peer and member of the House of Lords (styled Hon. William Ponsonby from 1723 to 1739 and Viscount Duncannon from 1739 to 1758).
Print made by: Samuel Middiman After: William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough | Production date 1789 |
The Hon. William Ponsonby, third son of the third Earl, was created Baron de Mauley in 1838 while Lady Caroline Ponsonby, only daughter of the third Earl, was the wife of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, but is perhaps best remembered for her affair with Lord Byron.
Claude A. C. Ponsonby, presumably by descent; sold at Christie's sale of Ponsonby Heirlooms to Sabin, March 28, 1908; purchased through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, November 1941; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
original private library of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, who had died 55 years earlier, in 1793. This nobleman, whose classical and artistic taste is the subject of another related study,3 was addicted to virtu and, from an early age, had become one of the most notable collectors of his time.4
Willam Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon and Later 2nd Earl of Bessborough, Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1750 - 1760. Ponsonby first encountered Liotard at Rome in 1738 and took him as his draughtsman to Constantinople, where the artist’s independent career began.
William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, Future Second Earl of Bessborough. His lapidary excellence lead the German medalist Johann Lorenz Natter to Switzerland, Venice, Florence, England, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and Russia, where he died.
