John Ponsonby (politician)

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The Right Honourable
John Ponsonby
A portrait of Ponsonby by Jacob Ennis
Speaker of the Irish House of Commons
In office
1756–1771
MonarchGeorge III
Preceded byHenry Boyle
Succeeded byEdmund Sexton Pery
Personal details
Born(1713-03-29)29 March 1713
Died16 August 1787(1787-08-16) (aged 74)
SpouseLady Elizabeth Cavendish (m.1743)
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John Ponsonby, PC (Ire) (29 March 1713 – 16 August 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1756 and 1771, a period in which the legislative independence of the Kingdom of Ireland was increasingly asserted and tested.

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