PONS ON BY

John Pons on by , 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron Pons on by 1744–1806). b. 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P. Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as 2 baron Pons on by 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres 28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special mi ion to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8 June to 9 Nov. 1832; amba ador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832 to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850; G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Pons on by of Imokilly, co. Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. d. Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. Lamington’s Days of the dandies (1890) 75–9; Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii 369–70 (1868); Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord Pons on by at Bru els 1831.