title: William Ponsonby
text: # William Ponsonby
  
  William Ponsonby may refer to:
  
  * William Ponsonby (publisher) (died 1604), English publisher in the Elizabethan era
  * William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704–1793), British & Irish MP, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Postmaster-General of Great Britain
  * William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby (1744–1806), Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge and Kilkenny, Postmaster-General of Ireland
  * William Ponsonby (British Army officer) (1772–1815), British major-general in the Battle of Waterloo, Irish Member of Parliament
  * William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley (1787–1855), British Member of Parliament for Poole, Knaresborough and Dorset
  * William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon (1659–1724), Anglo-Irish peer
  