Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley
Rupert Charles Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley TD FCA[1] (born 30 June 1957) is a British hereditary peer, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and retired Territorial Army officer.
Education
Ponsonby was educated at Eton College, an independent school for boys in the town of Eton (near Windsor) in Berkshire.
Peerage and political career
Lord de Mauley succeeded his uncle, the 6th Baron de Mauley in October 2002. On 10 March 2005 he was declared the winner of a by-election for a Conservative hereditary peers' seat in the House of Lords. He was the first peer to have acceded to his title after the House of Lords Act 1999 to have obtained an elective hereditaries' seat in the House.
He is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs after taking over from John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach who went to the Home Office. He was previously a Government Lord-in-Waiting (a position in the Royal Household given to Government Lords whips) and also served as a Shadow Minister for Children, Schools & Families and Energy & Climate Change from 2008-9, and then an opposition whip from 2009-10.[2]
His brother, Ashley George Ponsonby, was allowed by a Warrant of Precedence from the Queen to use the style of Honourable, by virtue of his status as the brother of a peer.[3]
Military service
Ponsonby first joined the Territorial Army in 1976, when he was commissioned into the Royal Wessex Yeomanry as a second lieutenant.[4][5] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1978,[6]major in 1988,[7] and lieutenant-colonel in 2003.[8] In 1988, he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Territorial) (TD).[9] He retired in 2005.[10]
Family
Lord de Mauley is married to Lucinda, younger daughter of Lord Fanshawe of Richmond. His heir is his younger brother, who is married to the former Camilla Gordon-Lennox, née Pilkington.[citation needed]
He is distantly related to Diana, Princess of Wales, for both are descended from the first Earl Spencer.
Notes
- ^ http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/ministers-interests.pdf
- ^ The Lord De Mauley, TD
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 56937. p. 6081. 16 May 2003. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46909. p. 7439. 24 May 1976. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47264. p. 8747. 4 July 1977. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47527. p. 5471. 8 May 1978. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 52665. p. 14496. 23 September 1991. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 56811. p. 125. 7 January 2003. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51543. p. 13394. 28 November 1988. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58008. p. 8065. 13 June 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
External links
- Lord De Mauley, political biography, only partially available without subscription; photograph available without subscription.
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