Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane, GCB, ISO (né Ponsonby; 14 March 1824 – 1 December 1915) was an English diplomat, civil servant, courtier, and cricketer.

[1] Later he was Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office from 1857 to 1901, Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State 1901 to 1915 and Bath King of Arms from 1904 to 1915.

[2][3] Ponsonby played for both Middlesex and Surrey, and later administered Somerset and Harrow Cricket Club.

[5] They had eleven children: In 1875, he changed his surname to Ponsonby-Fane upon inheriting the estate of Brympton d'Evercy from his aunt, Lady Georgiana Fane.

He spent the remainder of his life there improving the gardens until he died in 1915, after which the estate passed to his eldest son, John.