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John Brabazon Ponsonby

Birth
County Kilkenny, Ireland
Death
21 Feb 1855 (aged 84–85)
Brighton, Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England
Burial
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England Add to Map
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John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB was a longtime British diplomat and politician. He was considered an exceptionally handsome man – reportedly he was almost lynched as an aristocrat in a Paris street by a revolutionary mob in the 1790s but saved by the intervention of a mob of women who saved him because he was so pretty.
John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB was a longtime British diplomat and politician. He was considered an exceptionally handsome man – reportedly he was almost lynched as an aristocrat in a Paris street by a revolutionary mob in the 1790s but saved by the intervention of a mob of women who saved him because he was so pretty.


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