Frederick Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

Frederick Matthew Thomas Ponsonby, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (born October 27, 1958 ) is a British peer and politician of the Labor Party .

He is the son of Thomas Ponsonby, 3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede , from his first marriage to Ursula Fox-Pitt. He attended Holland Park School in London and studied at Cardiff University and Imperial College London .

He is a Labor Party member and served on the City Council of the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1990 to 1994 .

When his father died in June 1990, he inherited his title of nobility as Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede and the associated seat in the House of Lords . He participated regularly in parliamentary debates and was the education policy spokesman for his group from 1992 to 1997. When the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force , he lost his seat in the House of Lords in November 1999. On April 19, 2000, he was raised to life peer as Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton , of Shulbrede in the County of West Sussex, and was thereby restored to a seat in the House of Lords.

Since 1996 he has been a Fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (FIMM) and in 1997 he was approved as a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) By the Engineering Council UK .

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predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Ponsonby	Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede 1990 – today	current owner of the title

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SURNAME	Ponsonby, Frederick, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ponsonby, Frederick Matthew Thomas, 4th Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1958