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William Lamb, 2. Viscount Melbourne (* 15. März 1779 in London; † 24. November 1848 in Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire) war ein britischer Adliger und Politiker. Er gilt als Mentor Königin Victorias. Nach ihm wurde die Metropole Melbourne benannt (die Hauptstadt des australischen Bundesstaates Victoria ).
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 and twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lamb was elected to Parliament in 1806 as a member of the Whig party. Lamb served as Irish Secretary in the government.
Lord Melbourne was born William Lamb, allegedly the second of six children of the 1st Viscount Melbourne and his wife. Lamb married Lady Caroline Ponsonby (1805), who gave birth to their only surviving child, George Augustus Frederick, in 1807. The couple separated in 1825, years after Lady Caroline’s public affair with poet
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- Lord Melbourne was the British prime minister from July 16 to November 14, 1834, and from April 18, 1835, to August 30, 1841. He was Queen Victoria...
- William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne) was educated at Eton College and at the University of Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1804.
- Lord Melbourne was permanently weakened by a stroke on October 23, 1842, and died six years later.
In 1815, he was made 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, who was a noted Whig politician and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1834 and 1835–1841.
15. März 2013 · Biography. Viscount Melbourne had 2 lives – the first as the cuckolded husband in one of the most scandalous affairs of the 19th century, and the second as senior statesman and mentor to...
Learn about William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, twice serving former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1834 - 1834 and 1835 - 1841.
