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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Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne in the County of Derby, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his son, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne...
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Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his wife Elizabeth Milbanke, and the younger brother of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Since...
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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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Melbourne (1745–1828) William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne (1782–1853) Melbourne, a mid-19th-century screw...
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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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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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Melbourne Hall is a Georgian style country house in Melbourne, Derbyshire, previously owned by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister...
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Bedchamber crisis (category William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
Kingdom between 1839 and 1841. It began after Whig politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne declared his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the...
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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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William Lamb may refer to: Bill Lamb (politician), member of the Alabama House of Representatives William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime...
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98; Newall 1991, p. 310. Ewing 1981, p. 110. "NPG 941; William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne – Portrait Extended". National Portrait Gallery, London....
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Brocket Hall (category William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
Prince Regent, who had a liaison with Lady Melbourne. The next owner was William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister...
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daughter of the third Earl, was the wife of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, but is perhaps best remembered for her affair with Lord...
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Earl of Glandore (redirect from Viscount Crosbie)
brought a celebrated action for criminal conversation against William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, accusing him of adultery...
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author William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), British Prime Minister William Lamb (Confederate States Army officer) (1835–1909) William Lamb (sculptor)...
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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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Victoria (British TV series) (category Cultural depictions of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
her intense friendship and infatuation with her favourite advisor Lord Melbourne (Rufus Sewell), to her courtship and early marriage (1840) to Prince Albert...
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Dodger (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
Dodger is a British family comedy drama series, inspired by the Artful Dodger from the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The series serves as a prequel...
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With great power comes great responsibility (category William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
French writer Voltaire. On 27 June 1817, the British member of Parliament William Lamb proclaimed that "the possession of great power necessarily implies great...
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Baronet. Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne and the Hon. George Lamb were his younger brothers...
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The Young Victoria (category Cultural depictions of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
and she was prevailed upon to stay till the next day." William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was prime minister when Victoria came to the throne...
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when the colony was established in 1851. Melbourne – was named in honour of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister...
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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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Glenarvon (category William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
their mutual ruin and death. The picture of her husband, William Lamb (the 2nd Viscount Melbourne from 1828), called Lord Avondale in the book, is more favourable...
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2nd Viscount Melbourne. Lamb was the son of Matthew Lamb, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, and nephew of Peniston Lamb. His brother was Robert Lamb, bishop...
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Mount Melbourne was discovered and first recognized as a volcano by James Ross in 1841 and named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was...
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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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