Other Events:

• Census: 1871, West Bangor Farmhouse, Agricultural Pupil (Ecclesmachan, Co. West Lothian) Run by John Stobart
• Occupation: 06 Feb 1877, Jamaica; Appointed as 3rd Class Inspector
• Occupation: 1878, Jamaica; Sub-Inspector of Jamaica Constabulary

Notes:

--- "London Evening Standard" 07 Apr 1904, page 2:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD
Sir, I read with much interest and pleasure a letter from Mr Seymour C. Da Costa in "The Standard" of April 2, on "Labour for South Africa". I have been connected with the West Indies for twenty-eight years, and know all the Islands. The Barbadian is an excellent labourer, and would, I have no doubt whatever, do great work as a mine hand. "Fatigue" is a word of which the Barbadian labourer does not know the meaning.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
GRANVILLE PONSONBY
The Sports Club, St. James'-square, S.W., April 5

--- "The Handbook of Jamaica" 1881, page 240:
Establishment of the Constabulary Force.
Office: Third Class Inspector
District, &c.: Hanover
Name: G. Ponsonby
Salary and other Emolument: 198 pounds 8 s. 9d.
Date of First Appointment to Public Service: 6th Feb. 1877

-- Visitation of England and Wales, 1893, page 116:
Granville Ponsonby of Choc Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies; Chief of Police at St. Lucia; Member of Legislative Council [of St. Lucia].

--- "Dod's Peerage" 1904, page 1092:
Ponsonby, Hon. Granville, s. of the 7th Earl of Bessborough; b. 1854; m. 1879, Mabel, d. of Hon. Charles Jackson, [Speaker of the House of Assembly] of St. Anne's, Jamaica; is chief of police, St. Lucia, W. Indies, late inspector of constabulary, Jamaica.

--- "Morning Post" 18 Sep 1854, page 8:
BIRTHS. On the 13th inst. at the Vicarage, Canford, the Lady Louisa Ponsonby, of a son.

--- "Morning Post" 18 Sep 1854, page 4:
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countess St. Germans intend to sojourn a few weeks at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall. Lady Louisa Ponsonby (daughter of the noble earl and countess) and infant son, by the last letters from Canford, are progressing most favourably.

--- From a letter by Jemima to Granville, Oct 1854:
Aunt Caroline was God-mother, and they were planning on Christening the baby "Louis". Obviously, they changed their minds.

Another letter says that he was born at 8 in the morning and weighed 10-1/2 pounds. Walter and Louisa were considering the names of Stephen and Louis.

--- "Newcastle Daily Chronicle" 10 Dec 1913, page 9:
British Tobacco Plantations.
(Pullen-Burry System), Limited.
Incorporated Under the Companies Acts, 1908 and 1913.
(A Parent Company.)
Capital . . 100,000 pounds.

. . . The Honourable Granville Ponsonby, 12a, Cliveden Place, Eaton Square, London, S.W., Director of Company.

-- "Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour" edited by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1910, page 1298:
Hon. Granville Ponsonby, Chief of Police in St. Lucia, b. 1854; m. 1879, Mabel, d. of Hon. Charles Jackson of St. Anne's, Jamaica. Res. -- Cloc, St. Lucia.

--- "Gloucestershire Echo" 27 Feb 1924, page 5:
The Hon. Granville Ponsonby, who died in London on Saturday last in his 70th year, was a grandson of the third Earl of St. Germans, and an uncle of the present Earl of Bessborough, who (as Viscount Duncannon) was M.P. for Cheltenham in 1910.

--- "The Times" 27 Feb 1924, page 1:
PONSONBY.-- On the 34th Feb., at 41, Belgrave-road, S.W., the Hon. Granville Ponsonby, third son of the 7th Earl of Bessborough, aged 69. Service at St. Gabriel's Church, Warwick-square, tomorrow (Thursday), at 11:30.

--- "The Times" 29 Feb 1924, page 15:
FUNERALS.
The Hon. Granville Ponsonby.

The funeral service fo the Hon. Granville Ponsonby, son of the seventh Earl of Bessborough, was held at St. Gabriel's, Warwick-square, yesterday morning, the officiating clergy at the choral service including Bishop Taylor-Smith, Chaplain-General to the Forces; the Rev. Basil Staunton Batty, vicar of St. Gabriel's; and the Rev. W.H. Norman. The principal mourners included:--- The hon. Walter and the Hon. Cyril Ponsonby (brothers), Lady May Ponsonby, the Dowagers Lady Raglan and Lady Kathleen Skinner (sisters), the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, and Lord and Lady Oranmore and Browne.
Also present at the service were:--
Lady Eaton, the Hon. Montagu Eliot, the Hon. Mrs. Cyril Ponsonby, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Ponsonby, Lady (Walter) Campbell, Sir Francis Gore, Mr. and Mrs. Barnard, Miss Jackson, Miss M. Jackson, Major Blackwood, Mr. Kerswell, Miss Teele, Mrs. Weber, Mrs. B.H. Scott, and Major Skinner.

-- UK Incoming Passenger Lists on Ancestry:
September 1902
Ship's Name: Trent
Left Port Lymon and went to Southampton
Hon. Granville Ponsonby
Got on at St. Lucia
37 Years Old, English Subject
Cabin Passenger
Landed at Plymouth

Royal Mail Steam Packet Comp.
Ship's Name: Orinoco
New York to Southampton
Arrived 09 Aug 1909
Got on at St. Lucia
Got off at Southampton
54 Years Old
1st Class Passage

Royal Mail Steam Packet Comp.
Ship's Name: Magdalena
Southampton to New York via the West Indies
Left Southampton on 24 Nov 1909
Ticket No. 322
Going to St. Lucia
1st Class Passage

Royal Mail Steam Packet Comp.
Ship's Name: Oruba
Leaving Southampton on 17 Jan 1912
Getting off at St. Lucia
Ticket No. 710
1st Class Passage

Royal Mail Steam Packet Comp.
Ship's Name: Clyde
Leaving Southampton on 20 Jan 1909
Getting off at St. Lucia
Ticket No. 563
1st Class Passage

Ship's Name: Tagus
March 1904
Left Port Lymon and went to Southampton
Cabin Passenger 1st Class
Going to Plymouth

Ship's Name: Magdalena
Leaving 05 Dec 1906
Southampton to St. Lucia
Cabin Passenger 1st Class
Going to Jamaica

Ship's Name: Magdalena
Arrived Southampton 13 Jul 1908
Got on at Barbados
1st Saloon Passenger

Ship's Name: Tagus
Leaving Southampton 11 Dec 1907
Southampton to St. Lucia
Cabin Passenger 1st Class

Granville married Mabel McFarlane Jackson on 10 Jun 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]