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.

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–?)