Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley (12 September 1815 – 24 August 1896), was a British peer and Liberal politician.
Biography
Ponsonby was the son of the first Lord de Mauley, the third son of the third Earl of Bessborough, and Lady Barbara Ashley-Cooper, only child and heiress of the fifth Earl of Shaftesbury. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge.
On 9 August 1838, he married his second cousin, Lady Maria Ponsonby, a daughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough; they had 10 children:
Alice Barbara Maria (1840–1846)
Emily Priscilla Maria (1841–1926), married Rev. Charles Ogilvy
William Ashley Webb (1843–1918)
George (1844–1845)
Maurice John George (1846–1945), married Hon. Madeleine Hanbury-Tracy
Frederick John William (1847–1933), married Margaret Howard (a great-granddaughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle)
Mary Alice (1849–?)
Edwin Charles William (1851–1939), married (1) Emily Coope, (2) Hilda Smith
Helen Geraldine (1852–1949), married Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
Diana Isabel Maria (1855–?)
He lived at Langford House, Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire.