Maurice Ponsonby

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Maurice George Jesser Ponsonby , M.C. [1] (10 September 1880[ citation needed ] - 27 February 1943) was Dean of Johannesburg from 1923 until 1930. [2]

He was born at Horsley, Gloucestershire; educated at Eton [3] and Trinity College, Oxford; and ordained in 1905. [4] After curacies at Hackney Wick and Benenden he was Rector of Pilgrim's Rest from 1912 to 1914. He was Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York from 1914 to 1919; and also a Chaplain to the Forces during the same period. He was Rector of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Johannesburg from 1919 to 1923.

After his return from South Africa he was Rector of Much Haddam from 1930 until 1930. His funeral was held at Newtimber [5] on 3 March 1943. [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ ‘PONSONBY, Rev. Maurice George Jesser’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 12 Dec 2015
  3. ↑ thePeerage.com
  4. ↑ Crockfords 1929/30 p1030 (London), OUP, 1929
  5. ↑ Memorial to Ponsonby in the church
  6. ↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Monday, Mar 01, 1943; pg. 1; Issue 49482


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