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3 unusual facts about 6th Earl of Bessborough


Irish Land Acts

The "Report of her Majesty's Commissioners of Enquiry into the working of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act of 1870 and the acts amending the same", under the chairmanship of the 6th Earl of Bessborough and hence commonly known as the Bessborough Commission Report, was published in 1881 after lengthy hearings in 1880.

Old Stagers

Frederick Ponsonby (later Earl of Bessborough) to perform during Kent's annual Canterbury Cricket Week.

Walter Ponsonby, 7th Earl of Bessborough

He inherited the earldom on 11 March 1895 when his elder brother Frederick Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough, died unmarried and without a male heir.



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