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- 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. Lamb became Lord Melbourne when his father died. His family home was in Melbourne in Derbyshire.
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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. Some sources indicate that his full name was Henry William Lamb.
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Born. 15 Mar 1779. Birth place. London, England. Died. 24 Nov 1848 (aged 69 years) Resting place. St Etheldreda’s Church, Hatfield. About The Viscount Melbourne. Lord Melbourne resembles an 18th Century prime minister more than a 19th Century one.
Below is the detailed biography of Prime Minister William Lamb, the second Viscount Melbourne. He was best known as Lord Melbourne. He is known to have served the Whig party as a Home Secretary and was also an elected member of the Parliament. Table of Contents. Early Life of William Lamb. Lady Caroline Lamb. Political Life and Career.
Whig. 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. Lamb became Lord Melbourne when his father died.
- 24 November 1848 (aged 69)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions. He was a Whig politician and represented various constituencies as a member of the British Parliament. For twenty-five years, he was a member of the ‘House of Commons.’.
Geoghegan, Patrick M. Lamb, William (1779–1848), 2nd Viscount Melbourne , chief secretary for Ireland and British prime minister, was born 15 March 1779 at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, the second son of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his wife, Elizabeth Lamb (née Milbanke).
Right from his London birth on 15 March 1779, at Melbourne House in Piccadilly, William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne, was at the centre of Whig social circles. The second son of Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne, he followed a normal early life for sons of Whig magnates Eton, Cambridge University, and education for a legal profession.
