Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley

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.