Maurice Ponsonby

Maurice Ponsonby
Dean of Johannesburg
In office
1923–1930
Personal details
Born(1880-09-10)10 September 1880
Horsley, Gloucestershire, England
Died27 February 1943(1943-02-27) (aged 62)
England
EducationTrinity College, Oxford

Maurice George Jesser Ponsonby, M.C.[1] (10 September 1880 – 27 February 1943) was an English Anglican priest, Dean of Johannesburg from 1923 until 1930.[2]

Life

He was born at Horsley, Gloucestershire, the son of Edwin Charles William Ponsonby and his wife Dora Coope, daughter of Octavius Edward Coope.[2][3] He was educated at Eton College,[4] and Trinity College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1903, M.A. in 1905; and was ordained deacon in 1904, priest in 1905.[5] After curacies at Hackney Wick and Benenden he was Rector of Pilgrim's Rest from 1912 to 1914. He was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York from 1914 to 1919; and also a Chaplain to the Forces during the same period. He was Rector of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Johannesburg from 1919 to 1923.

After his return from South Africa he was Rector of Much Haddam from 1930 until 1930. His funeral was held at Newtimber[6] on 3 March 1943.[7]

Works

  • Visions and Vignettes of War (1917), memoir[8]

Family

Ponsonby married in 1918 Lady Phyllis Buxton, eldest daughter of Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton. The couple had one son and three daughters who survived to adulthood, with their eldest child Constance Mary Louis Ponsonby (1919–1932). Their son John Ashley Ponsonby of the Coldstream Guards was killed in action in North Africa on 25 December 1942.[2][9][10] Of the daughters:

  • Elizabeth (born 1922),[9] married in 1952 the barrister John Lionel Clay, later a circuit judge, only son of Lionel Pilleau Clay (died 1918), brother of Charles Travis Clay.[11][12][13]
  • Mary Veronica (born 1927) married in 1961 the public servant William Peter Ward Barnes (1919–2011), son of Ernest Barnes.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ London Gazette
  2. ^ a b c "Ponsonby, Rev. Maurice George Jesser". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1884. p. 206.
  4. ^ Eton College (1901). The Eton Register: Being a Continuation of Stapylton's Eton School Lists, 1893-1899; Compiled for the Old Etonian Association. Priv. print. for the members of Spottiswoode & Company Limited. p. 110.
  5. ^ Crockfords 1929 p1032 (London), OUP, 1929
  6. ^ Memorial to Ponsonby in the church
  7. ^ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, Mar 01, 1943; pg. 1; Issue 49482
  8. ^ Ponsonby, Maurice George Jesser (1917). Visions and Vignettes of War. London, New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
  9. ^ a b Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. p. 567.
  10. ^ "Lieutenant J A Ponsonby". Imperial War Museums.
  11. ^ Kelly's (1962). Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kingston upon Thames: Kelly's Directories. p. 474.
  12. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1899). Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 178.
  13. ^ "Clay, His Honour John Lionel". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ^ Corley, T. A. B. "Barnes, William Peter Ward (1919–2011)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/106489. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)


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