Myles Walter Ponsonby CBE (12 September 1924 – 1 February 1999), was a British soldier, intelligence officer, diplomat and politician.
[1][2] Ponsonby served in the British Army from 1942 to 1949 and was wounded on active service during the Second World War.
He became an instructor at the Army's School of Infantry, in Warminster, in 1945, and was an Intelligence Officer in Palestine before a posting to GHQ Middle East.
[1] In 1988, following his retirement, he began a new career as a member of Wiltshire County Council representing Idmiston, serving until 1993.
They had one son, John Maurice Maynard (1955), and two daughters, Belinda Mary (1951) and Emma Christina (1959).