jure Governor until 30 September 1836), and was appointed colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot on 4 December 1835. He was transferred to the colonelcy of the Royal Dragoons on 31 March 1836. During this period, he maintained a high degree of interest in the handling of cavalry, and corresponded with Wellington. He died suddenly at an inn, The Wellesley Arms at Murrell Green near Basingstoke, on 11January 1837 and was buried in the crypt of St Nicholas' Church, Hatherop, Gloucestershire. In 1838, Ponsonby's Column was erected in Valletta in honour of the governor. It was destroyed by lightning in 1864. Family On 16 March 1825, Ponsonby married Lady Emily Charlotte (died 1877), the youngest daughter of Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst. They had three sons and three daughters: Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby (1825–1895), married Mary Elizabeth Bulteel on 30 April 1861 Alberta Victoria Ponsonby (6 May 186215 October 1945), married Major-General William Montgomery of Grey Abbey, son of Hugh Montgomery and Lady Charlotte Herbert Magdalen Ponsonby (24 June 18641 July 1934) John Ponsonby (25 March 186626 March 1952), married Mary Robley, daughter of Thomas Robley Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby (16 September 186720 October 1935), married Victoria Kennard, daughter of Edmund Hegan Kennard and Agnes Hegan and had issue Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby (16 February 187124 March 1946), married Dorothea Parry, daughter of Sir Charles Parry, 1st Bt. and Lady Elizabeth Herbert and had issue Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Edward Valette (3 December 182716 June 1868), married Catina Dahl Georgina Melita Maria Ponsonby (16 February 182918 February 1895), unmarried Harriet Julia Frances Ponsonby (27 October 183030 June 1906) Selina Barbara Wilhelmina Ponsonby (20 January 183522 July 1919), married William Windham Baring on 2 January 1862, without issue Frederick John Ponsonby (21 March 18373 February 1894), took holy orders and died unmarried Notes References . ONDB Endnotes: A. Ponsonby, Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's private secretary: his life from his letters (1942) J. Ponsonby, The Ponsonby family (1929) Earl of Bessborough and A. Aspinall, eds., Lady Bessborough and her family circle (1940) Army List H. T. Siborne, ed., Waterloo letters (1891) GM, 2nd ser., 7 (1837) The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington ... from 1799 to 1818, ed. J. Gurwood, 13 vols. in 12 (1834–9) Hart's Army List · W. F. P. Napier, History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France, 3rd edn, 6