Richard Ponsonby

The Rt. Rev. and Hon. Richard Ponsonby (1772–1853) was an Irish clergyman who held high office in the Church of Ireland.

Life

He was born at Dublin in 1772, the third son of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly and Louisa Molesworth.[1] He was educated at Kilkenny College, and at the University of Dublin, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1794, and Master of Arts in 1816.

During 1795, he was ordained deacon on 1 March and priest on 27 November, and was installed prebendary of Tipper in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 2 December.[2] He succeeded by patent to the precentorship of St. Patrick's on 25 July 1806, and dean on 3 June 1817.[3] Ponsonby was elevated the episcopate when he was consecrated bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora on 16 March 1828,[4][5] and was translated to Derry on 21 September 1831.[6][7] Under the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833, he became bishop of Derry and Raphoe on 5 September 1834 when the two dioceses were united.[7] He was president of the Church Education Society, and died at the Episcopal palace in Derry on 27 October 1853.[6][7]

He married, in 1804, his cousin Frances, second daughter of The Rt Hon. John Staples. She died on 15 December 1858, having had a son, William Brabazon, fourth and last Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly, who died on board his yacht, the Lufra, off Plymouth, on 10 September 1866.[1] The couple also has four daughters, Harriet, Elizabeth, Frances and Emily. Frances and Emily kept an interesting joint diary, of which the surviving fragments were published in the 1970s, recording their impressions of Donegal in 1837, when they accompanied their father on his visitation.

References

  1. 1 2 Rt. Rev. Hon. Richard Ponsonby. thePeerage.com. Retrieved on 17 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 160.
  3. ↑ Cotton, Henry (1848). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Leinster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 107.
  4. ↑ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 1, The Province of Munster (2nd Edition, corrected and englarged ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 474.
  5. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 397. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  6. 1 2 Cotton, Henry (1849). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 328.
  7. 1 2 3 Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 387. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
John William Keatinge		 Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
1818–1828 		Succeeded by
Henry Richard Dawson
Preceded by
Alexander Arbuthnot		 Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora
1828–1831 		Succeeded by
Edmund Knox
Preceded by
William Knox		 Bishop of Derry
1831–1834 		Succeeded by
Last separate bishop of the diocese
Preceded by
First bishop of the united diocese		 Bishop of Derry and Raphoe
1834–1853 		Succeeded by
William Higgin
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