(b. 1951) Rupert Spencer Ponsonby (b. 1953) Luke Arthur Ponsonby (b. 1957) John Piers Ponsonby (b. 1962) His elder daughter, Lady Jane Butler was a renowned beauty and celebrated hostess. In 1943, she joined the WRNS, and was selected to go to Stanmore, where she worked with the German code-breaking group that operated the Enigma Machines. In 1945 she married Peter Heaton, a Clerk in the House of Lords, and lived in a house in Ralston Street, Chelsea. She had one son, Mark Heaton, who was born in 1948. She was divorced from Peter Heaton in 1952. His younger daughter, Lady Martha Butler was a nurse during World War II. She married Sir Ashley Charles Gibbs Ponsonby, 2nd Bt in 1950. She had four sons. In 1967, he sold his family's principal seat, Kilkenny Castle, to the City of Kilkenny for a token sum of £50. As he had no male heirs of the body the titles went to a cousin, James Butler, 7th Marquess of Ormonde. References 1893 births 1971 deaths Arthur Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Recipients of the Military Cross Arthur 6 Deputy Lieutenants of Kent 17th/21st Lancers officers