Ponsonby's Column

It was built in 1838 as a memorial to Major-General Sir Frederick Ponsonby, a former Governor of Malta, but it was destroyed by lightning in 1864.

[3] Major-General Sir Frederick Ponsonby, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, was appointed Governor of Malta on 15 February 1827.

While Ponsonby was in England in 1836, he resigned from the post of Governor, and died suddenly on 11 January of the following year.

[4][5][6] In 1838, a column was built in honour of the dead Governor on St. Andrew's Bastion, overlooking Marsamxett Harbour.

It was restored a number of times over the years, most recently in 2013 under the sponsorship of the Bank of Valletta.