- Adam Poniński (1732–1798)
Adam Poniński (1732 or
1733 -23 July 1798 was a Polish nobleman.Prince , one of the leaders of theRadom Confederation of 1867,Grand Treasurer of the Crown (from 1775), member of thePermanent Council , he is remembered as the infamousMarshal of the Sejm (together withMichał Hieronim Radziwiłł ) of thePartition Sejm (1773-1775). Considered by many contemporaries and historians atraitor , serving Russian ambassadors, he was stripped of all titles and exiled by the decree of theGreat Sejm in 1790 but restored soon afterwards by theConfederation of Targowica .His son, Adam Poniński, born in 1758, became a military general.
References
*Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki, "Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945", Greenwood PublishingGroup, 1996, ISBN 0313260079, [http://books.google.com/books?id=S6aUBuWPqywC&pg=PA466&dq=Adam+Poni%C5%84ski+bribed&sig=UMTRdzAO_OSc9ytZnQ-_WIOVXZM Google Print, p.466]
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