Pontefract, an ancient market-town of Yorkshire, 13 m. SE. of Leeds; has a castle in which Richard II. died, and which suffered four sieges in the Civil War, a market hall, grammar school, and large market-gardens, where liquorice for the manufacture of Pomfret cakes is grown.
Population (circa 1900) given as 16,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick Cavendish * Pontifex Maximus