Baron de Mauley, of Canford in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
William Ponsonby,[1] who had earlier represented Poole, Knaresborough and Dorset in the House of Commons.
Gerald Ponsonby, an officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who was killed in the First World War, and Hubert, who became the 5th Baron.
The eldest, the 6th Baron, married Helen Alice Douglas, a granddaughter of the 19th Earl of Morton; the marriage was childless.
Thomas Ponsonby, an officer of the Wessex Yeomanry who held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, married Maxine Henrietta Thellusson, whose great-great-great-grandfather Charles Thellusson, Member of Parliament for Evesham, was the younger brother of the 1st Baron Rendlesham.
[5] The title next falls to Sir Charles Ponsonby, 3rd Baronet (born 1951), a third cousin of the present holder and his brother.
Ashley Ponsonby (1831–1898), younger son of the 1st Baron, was a Liberal politician, Grenadier Guards officer and justice of the peace.