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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848 NRA: Lamb, William (1779-1848) 2nd Viscount Melbourne, statesman DNB: Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), prime minister LBT ID: LdMelbo2 VIAF ID: 5727074 LOC ID: n79017992 | B/BAP: 1779-03-15 DIED: 1848-11-24 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
English statesman, the son of Lady Melbourne (possibly by the third earl of Egremont) and
husband of Lady Caroline Lamb; he was a Whig MP, prime minister (1834-41), and counsellor
to Queen Victoria. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne: William Lamb to Lord Melbourne, 26 February 1812 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) William Lamb to Lady Melbourne, [26 February 1812] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) William Lamb to Lady Melbourne, 30 September 1812 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) William Lamb to Lady Morgan, 12 December [1827] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Dr. Goddard to William Lamb, 13 December 1827 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) George Morris to Viscount Melbourne, 6 September 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Lord Melbourne to Lord Morpeth, 7 May 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Lord Melbourne to Lord Morpeth, 11 May 1837 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Samuel Rogers to Lord Melbourne, 15 August 1838 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) | |
