Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby, Baroness Sysonby (née Kennard; 1874 – 2 June 1955),[1] was a British cookbook author with an "eager and unconventional mind" whose recipes were popular during the 1930s and 1940s.[2][3] Her friend Osbert Sitwell described her book Lady Sysonby's Cookbook as "varied, historic, traditional, and not intended for the rich man's table alone".[4]