Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley

Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley (* June 30, 1957 ) is a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party.

He attended Eton College. In 1976, he joined the Territorial Army. He pursued an officer's career and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel reached when he retired from military service in 2005.

Upon the death of his uncle Gerald John Ponsonby, 6th Baron de Mauley, in October 2002, he inherited his title of nobility. On 10 March 2005 he won the Conservatives in the House of Lords in a by-election for the re-occupation of a seat. He was the first hereditary peer who in 1999 gained a seat in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act.

He is currently the Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as the successor of John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, who moved to the Home Office.

He is with Lucinda, the younger daughter of the late Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, married. The couple has no children.