Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley

Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley

Rupert Charles Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley TD (born 30 June 1957) is a British peer and retired Territorial Army officer.

Peerage and political career

He succeeded his uncle, the 6th Baron de Mauley in October 2002. On March 10, 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 an opposition whip, with responsibility for Trade and Industry. He is also Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office. [ [http://80.69.4.211/tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=122884 The Lord De Mauley, TD] ]

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. [LondonGazette|issue=56937|notarchive=yes|startpage=6081|date=16 May 2003|accessdate=2008-01-10]

Military service

Lord de Mauley first joined the Territorial Army in 1976, when he was commissioned into the Royal Wessex Yeomanry as a second lieutenant. [LondonGazette|issue=46909|supp=yes|startpage=7439|date=24 May 1976|accessdate=2008-01-10] [LondonGazette|issue=47264|supp=yes|startpage=8747|date=4 July 1977|accessdate=2008-01-10] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1978, [LondonGazette|issue=47527|supp=yes|startpage=5471|date=8 May 1978|accessdate=2008-01-10] major in 1988, [LondonGazette|issue=52665|supp=yes|startpage=14496|date=23 September 1991|accessdate=2008-01-10] and lieutenant-colonel in 2003. [LondonGazette|issue=56811|supp=yes|notarchive=yes|startpage=125|date=7 January 2003|accessdate=2008-01-10] In 1988, he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Territorial) (TD). [LondonGazette|issue=51543|supp=yes|startpage=13394|date=28 November 1988|accessdate=2008-01-10] He retired in 2005. [LondonGazette|issue=58008|supp=yes|notarchive=yes|startpage=8065|date=13 June 2006|accessdate=2008-01-10]

Family

Lord de Mauley announced his engagement in 2002 to a daughter of the late Lord Fanshawe of Richmond just before his uncle, the 6th Lord, died. He is now married. His heir is his younger brother, who is now married since 2006 to the former Camilla Gordon-Lennox, nee Pilkington.Fact|date=January 2008

Notes

External links

* [http://www.politicallinks.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=45271&group=5&Page=Lord%20De%20Mauley%20:%20Political%20Biography Lord De Mauley, political biography] , only partially available without subscription; photograph available without subscription.


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