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Personal data Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl of Bessborough 


Household of Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl of Bessborough

He is married to Henrietta Frances Spencer.

They got married on November 27, 1780, he was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. John William Ponsonby  1781-1847 


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(i) Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (b 24.01.1758, d 03.02.1844)
m. (27.11.1780) Henrietta Frances Spencer (b 1761, d 14.11.1821, dau of John, 1st Earl Spencer)

(a) John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland h (b 31.08.1781, d 16.05.1847) had issue m. (16.11.1805) Maria Fane (b 11.05.1787, d 19.03.1834, dau of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland)

(b) Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, Governor of Malta (b 06.07.1783, d 11.01.1837, Major General) had issue m. (16.03.1825) Emily Charlotte Bathurst (d 01.02.1877, dau of Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst)

(c) William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Lord de Mauley (b 31.07.1787, d 16.05.1855) had issue m. (08.08.1814) Barbara Ashley-Cooper (d 05.06.1844, dau of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury)

(d) Caroline Ponsonby (b 13.11.1785, d 26.01.1828) m. (03.06.1805) William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (b 15.03.1779, d 24.11.1848, Prime Minister)

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Birthday January 24, 1758

  • The temperature on January 24, 1758 was about 2.0 °C. There was 29 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken sneeuw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1758: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 28 » The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
    • July 8 » French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
    • August 25 » Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
    • November 25 » French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
    • December 13 » The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
    • December 25 » Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.

Day of marriage November 27, 1780

  • The temperature on November 27, 1780 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1780: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
    • March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
    • October 10 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
    • October 16 » American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
    • November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
    • December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York

Day of death February 3, 1844

  • The temperature on February 3, 1844 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: half bewolkt sneeuw . Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1844: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 28 » A gun on USSPrinceton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members.
    • March 8 » King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
    • May 23 » Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
    • May 24 » Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
    • August 8 » The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
    • September 28 » Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.


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