the following year. In 1662, he received a pardon from for any treasons, rebellions, levying of war etc., committed before and until December 29, 1660, a pardon which applied equally to his younger brother. He also received two grants of lands under the settlement that he was instrumental in arranging. He received properties of a townland in Dublin county, two townlands in Limerick, sixteen in Donegal and forty-six in Kilkenny, particularly the castle and lands of the Kidalton Estate in Kilkenny which alone included 3223 acres previously owned by the Dalton family. Those dispossessed of the many thousands of acres involved were a mixture of Protestants and Catholics. He received land in County Donegal from debentures purchased from others. He also had a grant of lands in the same barony - Clanmaurice - that his younger brother Henry had benefited from, but his own claim was overriden by that of Colonel David Crosbie. Additionally, he had to surrender part of his estate when some of the Butler family was restored. Ponsonby renamed Kidalton Castle as Bessborough House in honour of his second wife Elizabeth ('Bess') (née Folliott), daughter of Anne Strode and Henry Folliott (the current house, now Kidalton College, was built seventy-seven years after his death). They had three children, Elizabeth, Henry and William (who was the first in the Ponsonby line of earls). Ponsonby died in 1678, aged 60, and was buried in the church at Fiddown. References Cromwellian Ireland People from Cumbria English soldiers 17th-century Irish landowners Irish landlords Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tipperary constituencies 1608 births 1678 deaths