Henry William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne PC, PC (Ire), FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig politician who served as the Home Secretary...
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He was the father of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Lamb was the son of Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet, and his wife Charlotte (née...
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wife of Whig politician Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. She was the mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who became Prime Minister of the...
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husband was the Honourable William Lamb, who after her death became 2nd Viscount Melbourne and British prime minister. Lamb was the only daughter of Frederick...
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of Viscount Melbourne were votes of no confidence in the government of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne which occurred on 7 June 1841. Melbourne lost...
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Elizabeth. Also, brother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper. He was educated...
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novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (later Prime Minister). The only film written and directed...
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Mileburne = mill stream) as a royal manor. Through William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Melbourne is the namesake of the Australian city. A parish church...
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named after the then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847, it became the...
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Peniston Lamb (1770–1805) William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne (1782–1853) Hon. George Lamb (1784–1834)...
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Peter Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper, and the Hon. Emily Lamb, daughter of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (since his mother had several lovers there is some...
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Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, sister of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and a leading figure in Regency society. William Cowper-Temple...
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admirers, Harriet's favourite was The Honourable William Lamb (who succeeded as The 2nd Viscount Melbourne in 1828), although he then fell in love with her...
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Whig government, 1830–1834 (redirect from First Melbourne Ministry)
the British Empire.[citation needed] However, King William IV dismissed Grey's successor Lord Melbourne in 1834 and asked Sir Robert Peel to form a government...
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in 1830. When the marriage of his sister Lady Caroline to William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, began to break up, he strongly supported Caroline. Unfortunately...
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that comprise North Adelaide. It was named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (after whom Melbourne is also named), who was British Prime Minister...
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George Stevens Byng 18 July 1834 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (First Lord) Charles John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (Chancellor of the Exchequer)...
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north of present-day Melbourne in December 1824, before reaching Port Phillip at Corio Bay. Other than the escape of convict William Buckley, this marks...
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statesman William Lamb Melbourne and his eccentric wife Lady Caroline Lamb. The novel is a story of English social and political life. William Ashe is a...
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intended to marry Lady Caroline Ponsonby, his cousin, but she married William Lamb, which he found devastating. Devonshire died at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire...
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children. Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828); married 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the Prime Minister in 1805. They had two children. William Francis Spencer Ponsonby...
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Swing Riots (category William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
Charlesworth.'Social protest in a rural society'. p. 35 Mandler, 'Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)' Green. Pauper London p.13 Aidt, T. S.; Franck...
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The Trial of Queen Caroline (category Cultural depictions of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
with former or future Prime Ministers William Grenville, Henry Addington, Lord John Russell, and Lord Melbourne. Also included are two of the King's brothers:...
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influential people. These included: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne - Prime Minister Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - Foreign Secretary Charles...
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Elizabeth who married William Crosbie, 4th Baron Brandon, and gained notoriety as the reputed mistress of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne) The Lady Florence...
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courtesan to them. Probably her best-known lover was Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. She was famous for her beauty, and was also noted for her extravagant...
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Endymion (Disraeli novel) (category William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
herself is wooed and won by Lord Roehampton, secretary of state in the Melbourne ministry. This places her in a position to forward Endymion's career,...
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his wife Emily Lamb. However, some have speculated that she and her brother William were fathered by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, whom...
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Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg (category Viscounts Fauconberg)
married the Hon. Charlotte Lamb, the daughter of Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet and sister of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. Together they had four...
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William McCullach (1878). Memoirs of the Right Honourable William, Second Viscount Melbourne. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan. p. 39. Retrieved 28 June 2019...
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