"Spencer". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1878. | ||||
Personal information | ||||
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Full name | Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby | |||
Born | 14 March 1824 Mayfair, Westminster, London, England |
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Died | 1 December 1915 Yeovil, Somerset, England |
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Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
Relations | John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough, Frederick Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough (brothers), John Henry Ponsonby (son), Spencer Gore (nephew), Richard Ponsonby-Fane (grandson) | |||
Domestic team information | ||||
Years | Team | |||
1841-1862 | Marylebone Cricket Club | |||
1848-1858 | Surrey | |||
1862 | Middlesex | |||
Career statistics | ||||
Competition | FC | |||
Matches | 62 | |||
Runs scored | 1359 | |||
Batting average | 11.92 | |||
100s/50s | 1/4 | |||
Top score | 108 | |||
Balls bowled | 184 | |||
Wickets | 14 | |||
Bowling average | 26.50 | |||
5 wickets in innings | 1 | |||
10 wickets in match | 0 | |||
Best bowling | 5/? | |||
Catches/stumpings | 30/0 | |||
Source: Cricket Archive, 25 August 2009 |
Sir Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby, later Ponsonby-Fane, GCB ISO (14 March 1824 – 1 December 1915) was an English cricketer and civil servant.
He was born in 1824 in Mayfair, the sixth son of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough.
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Ponsonby played for both Middlesex and Surrey, and later administered Somerset and Harrow Cricket Club. He was one of the founders of I Zingari in 1845.
He was also an employee of the British Foreign Office, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Private Secretary to Lord Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon and Earl Granville, Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State and he transported the peace treaty for the Crimean War to Paris.[1][2]
He married Louisa Anne Rose Lee Dillon (d. 1902), daughter of Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon, on 7 October 1847. They had eleven children:
In 1875, he changed his surname to Ponsonby-Fane upon inheriting the estate of Brympton d'Evercy from his aunt, Lady Georgiana Fane. He spent the remainder of his life there improving the gardens until he died in 1915.
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Court offices | ||
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Vacant
Title last held by
Sir William Martins |
Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State 1901–1915 |
Vacant
Title next held by
Sir Edward Goschen |
Heraldic offices | ||
Preceded by Sir John McNeill |
King of Arms of the Order of the Bath 1904–1915 |
Vacant
Title next held by
Sir George Callaghan |