Matthew Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

[2] At the University, he became a friend of Evelyn Waugh, with whom in 1925 he was arrested by the police, while the two of them were on a pub crawl and Ponsonby was driving the wrong way along Oxford Street while drunk.

[3] [4] Another university friend, Anthony Powell, recalled of Ponsonby's sister Elizabeth that she was "something of a gossip-column heroine of what came later to be looked on as the Vile Bodies world.

"[5] Unlike his sister, he remained fond of their parents' country house, Shulbrede Priory, and enthusiastically took part in the archaeological digs there of his father and Charles Strachey.

The crest, out of a ducal coronet, is azure three arrows, point downwards, one in pale and two in saltire, entwined at the intersection by a snake proper.

The motto is “Pro Rege Lege Grege”, meaning For the King, the Law, and the People,[7]