Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gaspard Ponsonsby, 2nd Baron Sysonby (7 June 1903 – 21 January 1956), was an officer of the British Army and a member of the House of Lords.
In addition to his father's role as trusted adviser to three British monarchs, his grandfather was the Sir Henry Ponsonby, who was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria.
He served initially in the Territorial Army, in the 5th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment, part of the 131st (Surrey) Infantry Brigade.
Initially they moved to what was then called Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, but were unable to find a suitable home there and stayed only two years in the country.
The family settled in Kitale in the uplands of Western Kenya, in the Rift Valley region, where Lord Sysonby hoped to make a living in farming.