Baroness Sysonby, Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby

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Baroness Sysonby, Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby (Kennard)

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Birthplace: Mayfair, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Death: June 02, 1955 (81)
Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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Daughter of Edmund Hegan Kennard and Agnes Kennard
Wife of Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby
Mother of Loelia Mary Lindsay; Edward Gaspard Ponsonby, 2nd Baron Sysonby and Victor Alexander Henry Desmond Ponsonby
Sister of Auberon Claud Hegan Kennard; Captain Ernest Coleridge Hegan Kennard and Winifred Grace Kennard

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About Baroness Sysonby, Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby

Victoria Lily 'Ria' Hegan Kennard [1874-1955], daughter of Colonel Edmund Hegan Kennard, married in 1899, Frederick 'Fritz' Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby. She became well known in the 1930s for writing 'Lady Sysonby's Cook Book', the culmination of a life long interest in cookery, but also as a means of making some income, as the Ponsonbys were notoriously hard up.

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Baroness Sysonby, Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby's Timeline

1874
February 4, 1874
Mayfair, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
1902
February 6, 1902
Strand, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
1903
June 7, 1903
St. Martin in the Fields, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
1955
June 2, 1955
Age 81
Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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