Lawyer and Whig MP for Westminster (1819) and Dungarvan (1822-34), he was the son of Elizabeth Lamb Viscountess Melbourne, possibly by the Prince of Wales. He was author of a gothic drama, Whistle for It (1807) and served with Byron on the management-committee of Drury Lane. His sister-in-law was Lady Caroline Lamb.

REFERENCES TO George Lamb:

Daniel Giles, MP to Lady Melbourne, 11 September 1811 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD.,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)

Annabella Milbanke to Lady Melbourne, [July? 1813] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD.,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)

Lord Byron to William Sotheby, 25 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 4 November 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Mrs George Lamb to Lady Melbourne, [1816] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD.,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)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 15 March 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 19 February 1819 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lady Caroline Lamb to William Godwin, 25 February 1819 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

William Godwin to Lady Caroline Lamb, 25 February 1819 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 25 March 1820 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, November 1820 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 18 June 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 1 June 1829 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)