Thomas Crane in North Wales, including Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby, the eccentric "Ladies of Llangollen". In 1832 he exhibited at the Liverpool Academy for the first time, and continued to show there for many years. In 1835 he was elected an associate of the academy, and in 1838 a full member. In the following year he married, and moved back to London, where he lived for some time, but found the capital unsuitable, due to his predisposition to pulmonary disease. After trying Leamington and other places, he moved to Liverpool, and in 1841 was elected treasurer of the academy there.
Ponsonby, New Zealand Vandeleur came to New Zealand but they are probably the source for the street names and ultimately the suburb's name. 1841 Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin), wife of Sir John Franklin the Governor of Tasmania, visits Auckland. During her time in Auckland she walks up a track in the Ponsonby area subsequently named for her as Franklin Road. mid1840s Governor Hobson's secretary James Stuart Freeman lives in the area subsequently known as "Freemans Bay". 1848 The area now known as Ponsonby is included in the "Hundred of Auckland". 1851 The "Suburban West Ward" is created which includes what is now Ponsonby.