Ponsonby, Sir Frederick Cavendish, military officer; served in the Peninsular War; distinguished himself at Waterloo; lay wounded all night after the engagement; was conveyed next day in a cart to the village with seven wounds in his body; was a great favourite with the army (1783-1837).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pons Asinorum * Pontefract