Richard Ponsonby (Bishop of Killaloe)

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Richard Ponsonby (1772–1853) was a priest in the Church of Ireland and served as Anglican bishop of Killaloe.

Ponsonby was the son of William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby and the father of William Brabazon Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby.

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He was born at Dublin in 1772, and educated at Dublin University, where he graduated B.A. in 1794, and M.A. in 1816. During 1795, he was ordained deacon and priest, and was appointed prebendary of Tipper in St. Patrick's Cathedral. He succeeded by patent to the precentorship of St. Patrick's on 25 July 1806, and became dean on 3 June 1817. In February 1828, he was consecrated bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, was translated to Derry on 21 September 1831, and became also bishop of Raphoe, in pursuance of the Church Temporalities Act, in September 1834. He was president of the Church Education Society, and died at the palace, Derry, on 27 October 1853.

He married, in 1804, his cousin Frances, second daughter of the Right Hon. John Staples. She died on 15 Dec. 1858, having had issue William Brabazon, fourth and last baron Ponsonby, who died on board his yacht, the Lufra, off Plymouth, on 10 September 1866.

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• This article incorporates text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain.

Religious titles
Preceded by William Knox	Bishop of Derry 1831–1853	Succeeded by William Higgin
Preceded by William Bisset	Bishop of Raphoe 1834–1853