What is Ponsonby's Column?
[[File:Ponsonby's Column (1838-1864).jpg|thumb|Ponsonby's Column, {{circa}} 1860]] [[File:Ponsomby's_Column.jpg|thumb|right|The plinth of Ponsonby's Column, now near [[Hastings Gardens]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Guillaumier|first1=Alfie|title=Bliet u Rħula Maltin|date=2005|publisher=Klabb Kotba Maltin|isbn=99932-39-40-2|page=1066}}</ref>]] '''Ponsonby's Column''', also known as '''Ponsonby's Cenotaph''',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110529/books/Exploring-Valletta-s-treasures.368022|title=Exploring Valletta's treasures|website=Timesofmalta.com|date=29 May 2011 |access-date=27 December 2017}}</ref> was a [[monument]] in [[Valletta]], [[Malta]]. It was built in 1838 as a memorial to [[Major-General (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] [[Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby|Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby]], who was a former [[Governor of Malta]]. It was destroyed by [[lightning]] in 1864. Its [[wikt:pedestal|pedestal]] survived. The pedestal is now located near [[Hastings Gardens]].<ref>[https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/52346/1/Every_picture_tells_a_story.pdf Cassar, M. (2018, December 9). Every picture tells a story (1): Marsamxett in the 1850s. The Sunday Times of Malta, pp. 59.]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1860s disestablishments in Europe]] [[Category:Malta]] [[Category:Monuments and memorials]] {{europe-stub}}