[1] Lord Ponsonby serves as a UK Government Minister in the Ministry of Justice since 2024.

[3] Lord Ponsonby was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) in 1996.

[4] Succeeding as Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede upon his father's death in 1990, he took his seat in the House of Lords as a hereditary peer in 1991, sitting on the Labour benches.

[5] Lord Ponsonby represented Roehampton Ward as a Councillor on Wandsworth London Borough Council from 1990 to 1994.

Having sat on the Lords Opposition frontbench as a spokesman on Education from 1992–1997 as well as on various parliamentary sub-committees, in 2000 he was created a life peer, in addition to his hereditary title, as Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton, of Shulbrede in the County of West Sussex, thus enabling to resume sitting in Parliament.