Adam Poniński (1732–1798)


Adam Poniński, member of the Permanent Council, he is remembered as the infamous Marshal of the Sejm of the Partition Sejm. Considered by many contemporaries and historians a traitor, serving Russian ambassadors, he was stripped of all titles and exiled by the decree of the Great Sejm in 1790 but restored soon afterwards by the Confederation of Targowica.
His son, Adam Poniński, born in 1758, became a military general.