John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby
British diplomat and politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people named John Ponsonby, see John Ponsonby (disambiguation).
John Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB (c. 1770 – 21 February 1855) was a longtime British diplomat and politician. He was considered an exceptionally handsome man – reportedly he was almost lynched as an aristocrat in a Paris street by a revolutionary mob in the 1790s but saved by the intervention of a mob of women who saved him because he was so pretty.[1]