History of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne - GOV.UK GOV.UK William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Whig 1835 to 1841, 1834 to 1834 Born 24 November 1848, Brocket, Herts Dates in office 1835 to 1841, 1834 to 1834 Political party Dissenters' Marriage Bill 1836: legalised civil marriage outside of the Church Interesting facts The city of Melbourne in Australia is named after him. He extensively tutored a young Queen Victoria in the ways of politics. “It is impossible that anybody can feel the being out of Parliament more keenly for me than I feel it for myself. It is actually cutting my throat. It is depriving me of the great object of my life.” 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 Queen Victoria. Born William Lamb, in 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his father’s title.

Now known as Lord Melbourne, he married Lady Caroline Ponsonby. It was a marriage which was to cause him no small amount of grief. He first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided, when his wife had a public affair with poet Lord Byron. The resulting scandal was the talk of Britain in 1812. In 1806 he was elected to the Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster, where he served from 1806 to 1812, and from 1816 to 1829, before joining the House of Lords on his father’s death. He was Secretary for Ireland from 1827 to 1828, and Home Secretary from 1830 to 1834, during which time he cracked down severely on agricultural unrest. Lady Caroline Ponsonby-Lamb was not a typical politician’s wife. The daughter of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and the granddaughter of the 1st Earl Spencer, she was born in 1785. Lady Caroline married Lord Melbourne, in 1805.

After 2 miscarriages, she gave birth to their only child, George Augustus Frederick, in 1807, and was devoted to him. He was epileptic and mentally handicapped and had to be cared for almost constantly. In 1812, Caroline read Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and declared: “If he was as ugly as Aesop, I must know him.” On meeting Byron that summer, she famously noted in her diary that he was “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. They began an affair which lasted until 1813, but even after it finished Lady Caroline’s obsession with the poet continued. She published a novel, Glenarvon, in 1816 containing obvious portraits of herself, her husband, Byron and many others. Embarrassed and disgraced, Melbourne decided to part from his wife, though the formal separation did not occur until 1825. Lady Caroline died in 1828, aged 42, her death hastened by drink and drugs. Lord Melbourne, not yet Prime Minister, was by her bedside.

On Grey ’s resignation in 1834, King William IV appointed Lord Melbourne as the Prime Minister who would be the “least bad choice”, and he remained in office for 7 years, except for 5 months following November 1834 when Sir Peel was in charge. Without any strong political convictions, he held together a difficult and divided Cabinet and sustained support in the House of Commons through an alliance of Whigs, Radicals and Irish MPs. He was not a reformer (although the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 did make sure that the growing middle class secured control of local government), but he was efficient in keeping order, raising taxes and conducting foreign policy. Lord Melbourne also had a close relationship to the monarch. He was Queen Victoria’s first Prime Minister, and she trusted him greatly. Their close relationship was founded in his responsibility for tutoring her in the world of politics and instructing her in her role, but ran much deeper than this suggests. Queen Victoria came to regard Lord Melbourne as a mentor and personal friend, and he was given a private apartment at Windsor Castle. Later in his premiership, his support in Parliament declined and in 1840 it grew difficult to hold the Cabinet together.

His unpopular and scandal-hit term ended in August 1841, when he resigned after a series of parliamentary defeats. Help us improve GOV.UK William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Are you a RAPper or a RAPscallion?

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Born 03/15/1779 London Dissenters' Marriage Bill 1836 - legalized civil marriage outside of the Church of England Cuckolded by Byron First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords The Viscount Melbourne July–November 1834 Lord Chancellor The Lord Brougham July–November 1834 Lord President of the Council The Marquess of Lansdowne July–November 1834 Lord Privy Seal Earl of Mulgrave July–November 1834 Home Secretary Viscount Duncannon July–November 1834 Foreign Secretary The Viscount Palmerston July–November 1834 Secretary of State for War & the Colonies Thomas Spring Rice July–November 1834 First Lord of the Admiralty The Lord Auckland July–November 1834 Chancellor of the Exchequer Leader of the House of Commons Viscount Althorp July–November 1834 President of the Board of Trade Treasurer of the Navy Charles Poulett Thomson July–November 1834 President of the Board of Control Charles Grant July–November 1834 Master of

 the Mint James Abercromby July–November 1834 First Commissioner of Woods and Forests Sir John Hobhouse, Bt July–November 1834 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Lord Holland July–November 1834 Paymaster of the Forces Lord John Russell July–November 1834 Secretary at War Edward Ellice July–November 1834 Second Ministry First Lord of the Treasury The Viscount Melbourne April 1835–August 1839 Lord Chancellor In Commission April 1835–January 1836 The Lord Cottenham January 1836–August 1839 Lord President of the Council The Marquess of Lansdowne April 1835–August 1839 Lord Privy Seal Viscount Duncannon April 1835–August 1839 Home Secretary The Lord John Russell April 1835–August 1839 Foreign Secretary The Viscount Palmerston April 1835–August 1839 Secretary of State for War & the Colonies The Lord Glenelg April 1835–February 183

9 The Marquess of Normanby February–August 1839 First Lord of the Admiralty The Lord Auckland April–September 1835 The Earl of Minto September 1835–August 1839 Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Spring Rice April 1835–August 1839 President of the Board of Trade Charles Poulett Thomson April 1835–August 1839 President of the Board of Control Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bt April 1835–August 1839 First Commissioner of Woods and Forests Viscount Duncannon April 1835–August 1839 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Lord Holland April 1835–August 1839 Secretary at War Viscount Howick April 1835–August 1839 Viscount Duncannon served concurrently as Lord Privy Seal and First Commissioner of Woods and Forests.

August 1839 – September 1841 First Lord of the Treasury Leader of the House of Lords The Viscount Melbourne August 1839–September 1841 Lord Chancellor The Lord Cottenham August 1839–September 1841 Lord President of the Council The Marquess of Lansdowne August 1839–September 1841 Lord Privy Seal Viscount Duncannon August 1839–January 1840 The Lord Clarendon January 1840–September 1841 Home Secretary The Marquess of Normanby August 1839–September 1841 Foreign Secretary The Viscount Palmerston August 1839–September 1841 Secretary of State for War & the Colonies Leader of the House of Commons The Lord John Russell August 1839–September 1841 First Lord of the Admiralty The Earl of Minto August 1839–September 1841 Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Francis Thornhill Baring August 1839–September 1841 President of the Board of Trade Henry

 Labouchere August 1839–September 1841 President of the Board of Control Sir John Cam Hobhouse August 1839–September 1841 First Commissioner of Woods and Forests Viscount Duncannon August 1839–September 1841 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Lord Holland August 1839–October 1840 The Lord Clarendon October 1840–June 1841 Sir George Grey, Bt June–September 1841 Secretary at War Thomas Babington Macaulay August 1839–September 1841 Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Morpeth August 1839–September 1841 The Third Ministry was during the time of Victoria.

British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements and enunciated no grand principles. "But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking. Prime Minister Date Takes Office Date Leaves Office “It is impossible that anybody can feel the being out of Parliament more keenly for me than I feel it for myself. It is actually cutting my throat. It is depriving me of the great object of my life.” Family Apparently Lamb had a dark side once all the brouhaha with his wife was done. He had married Caronline Ponsonby who stated she did not like Byron’s poetry and then spent her life in an open affair with Lord Byron. A man who had been a friend of Lamb’s when they were at University together.

They had a premature daughter and one son, George Augustus Frederick, born on 11 August 1807, who possibly had severe autism. Until Byron, they had a happy life. Caroline died in 1828, after Byron had died, and had also married Caroline’s cousin, who later separated from him. Aside from the rumors that circulated about Byron at such time, later in life rumors circulated against the widower Lamb. Rumors suggesting that he may have engaged in spanking of high-born ladies, but whipping of those from the streets. Early life Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751–1818) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his father's title and he married Lady Caroline Ponsonby. The next year he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster.

For the election in 1806 he was moved to the seat of Haddington burghs and for the 1807 election successfully stood for Portarlington (a seat he held until 1812). He first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided: his wife had a public affair with Lord Byron—she coined the famous characterisation of him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". The resulting scandal was the talk of Britain in 1812. Eventually the two reconciled and though they separated in 1825, her death in 1828 affected him considerably. In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the Glorious Revolution but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions". He therefore spoke against parliamentary reform and voted for the suspension of habeas corpus in 1817 when sedition was rife. Lamb's hallmark was finding the middle ground.

Though a Whig, he accepted (29 April 1827) the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich. Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming Viscount Melbourne, he moved to the House of Lords. He had spent 25 years in Commons as a backbencher and politically was not well known. Home Secretary: 1830–1834 When the Whigs came to power under Lord Grey in November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During the disturbances of 1830–32 Melbourne "acted both vigorously and sensitively, and it was for this function that his reforming brethren thanked him heartily". In the aftermath of the Swing Riots of 1830–31 he countered the Tory magistrates' alarmism by refusing to resort to military force and instead he advocated magistrates' usual powers be fully enforced along with special constables and financial rewards for the arrest of rioters and rabble-rousers.

He appointed a special commission to try approximately one thousand of those arrested and ensured that justice was strictly adhered to: one third were acquitted; and most of the one-fifth sentenced to death were instead transported. The disturbances over reform in 1831–32 were countered with the enforcement of the usual laws and again Melbourne refused to pass emergency legislation against sedition. Prime Minister: 1834, 1835–1841 After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government. Melbourne was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and hold the Whig party together. Melbourne hesitated after receiving from Grey the letter from the King requesting him to visit him to discuss the formation of a government. Melbourne thought he would not enjoy the extra work that accompanied the office of Premier but he did not want to let his friends and party down. According to Charles Greville, Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: "I think it's a damned bore. I am in many minds as to what to do".

Young replied: "Why, damn it all, such a position was never held by any Greek or Roman: and if it only lasts three months, it will be worth while to have been Prime Minister of England [sic]. "By God, that's true," Melbourne said, "I'll go!" Compromise was the key to many of Melbourne's actions. He was opposed in theory to the Reform Act 1832 proposed by the Whigs, but reluctantly believed that they were necessary to forestall the threat of revolution. While he was less radical than many, when Lord Grey resigned (July 1834), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. King William IV's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir Robert Peel an opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting general election (January 1835) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returned to power under Melbourne in April 1835. This was the last time a British monarch attempted to appoint a government against parliamentary majority.

Blackmailed The next year, Melbourne was once again involved in a sex scandal. This time he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The husband demanded £1400, and when he was turned down he accused Melbourne of having an affair with his wife. At this time such a scandal would be enough to derail a major politician, so it is a measure of the respect contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not fall. The king and the Duke of Wellington urged him to stay on as prime minister. After Norton failed in court, Melbourne was vindicated, but he did stop seeing Lady Norton. Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, "it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic. Spanking sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the whippings administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity." Queen Victoria Melbourne was Prime Minister when Queen Victoria came to the throne (June 1837). Barely eighteen, she was only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the Duchess of Kent, and her mother's advisor, John Conroy.

Over the next four years Melbourne trained her in the art of politics and the two became friends: Victoria was quoted as saying she considered him like a father (her own had died when she was only eight months old), and Melbourne's daughter had died at a young age. Melbourne was given a private apartment at Windsor Castle, and unfounded rumours circulated for a time that Victoria would marry Melbourne, forty years her senior. Tutoring Victoria was the climax of Melbourne's career—the prime minister spent four to five hours a day visiting and writing to her, and she responded with enthusiasm, and grew in wisdom. n May 1839, Melbourne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis. Prospective prime minister Robert Peel requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MPs who made up her personal entourage, arguing that the monarch should avoid any hint of favouritism to a party out of power. As the Queen refused to comply, supported by Melbourne although unaware that Peel had not requested the resignation of all the Queen's ladies as she had led him to believe, Peel refused to form a new government and Melbourne was persuaded to stay on as Prime Minister.

Melbourne left a considerable list of reforming legislation—not as long as that of Lord Grey, but worthy nonetheless. Among his administration's acts were a reduction in the number of capital offences, reforms of local government, and the reform of the Poor laws. This restricted the terms on which the poor were allowed relief and established compulsory admission to workhouses for the impoverished. On 25 February 1841, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society. Later life (1841–1848) Even after Melbourne resigned permanently in August 1841, Victoria continued writing to him but eventually the correspondence ceased as it was seen as inappropriate. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband Prince Albert as well as on herself. On his death his titles passed to his brother Frederick.

About: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne About: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne An Entity of Type : person , from Named Graph : , within Data Space : dbpedia.org William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848), usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles. "But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." Melbourne was dismissed by the King in 1834, the last Prime Minister to have been dismissed by a Monarch.

Property abstract William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848), usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles. "But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." Melbourne was dismissed by the King in 1834, the last Prime Minister to have been dismissed by a Monarch. (en) William Lamb, 2. Viscount Melbourne, 2. Baron Melbourne of Kilmore, 2. Baron Melbourne of 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 war der Sohn von Peniston Lamb (1745–1828), der 1781 zum Viscount Melbourne erhoben wurde, und dessen Frau Elizabeth Millbanke. Da seine Mutter viele Affären hatte, ist es nur eine Vermutung, dass George Wyndham, 3. Earl of Egremont sein biologischer Vater war. Er war das älteste von insgesamt fünf Kindern, seine Schwester Emily heiratete 1839 Lord Palmerston. Von 1806 bis 1812 und von 1816 bis zum Tod seines Vaters 1828, dessen Titel Viscount Melbourne er dann erbte, war Melbourne für die Wahlkreise Leominster, Haddington, Portalington, Peterborough, Hertfordshire und Newport Abgeordneter im House of Commons.

Seit 1827 war er Mitglied des Privy Council. Von 1827 bis 1828 war er Chief Secretary for Ireland, von 1830 bis 1834 war er britischer Innenminister (home secretary, 1830–1834). 1834 und von 1835 bis 1841 war er Lord High Treasurer und damit Premierminister. Seine Frau war die Romanautorin Caroline Lamb. Das einzige Kind dieser Ehe, der 1807 geborene Sohn George Augustus Frederick Lamb, starb bereits 1836. Seine Adelstitel erbte sein Bruder Frederick Lamb. (de) وليم لامب (بالإنجليزية: William Lamb) عرف أيضاً بلقب فيسكونت ملبورن الثاني (بالإنجليزية: 2nd Viscount Melbourne) سياسي بريطاني (15 مارس 1779-24 نوفمبر 1848).

تولى رئاسة الوزارة في بريطانيا مرتين: من 16 يوليو إلى 14 نوفمبر 1834. من 18 ابريل 1835 إلى 30 أغسطس 1841.32x28pxبوابة المملكة المتحدة32x28pxبوابة السياسة32x28pxبوابة أعلام (ar) William Lamb (15 mars 1779 – 24 novembre 1848), 2e vicomte de Melbourne, fut un homme d'État britannique du parti whig qui fut secrétaire d'État (1830-1834) et Premier ministre (1834 et 1835-1841), ainsi que mentor de la reine Victoria.

En 1839, à la suite de la décision par Lin Zexu, gouverneur général des provinces de Hubei et du Hunan, d'interdire le trafic d'opium en Chine et de détruire les stocks existants à Canton, lord Melbourne réussit à convaincre le Parlement britannique d’y envoyer un corps expéditionnaire, ce qui sera le préambule à la Première guerre de l'opium. (fr) William Lamb, II vizconde de Melbourne, miembro del Consejo Privado del Reino Unido, y de la Royal Society (15 de marzo de 1779 – 24 de noviembre de 1848) fue un hombre de estado británico del partido Whig que sirvió como ministro del interior o Home Secretary entre 1830-1834 y como Primer Ministro en 1834 y 1835-1841. También fue mentor de la reina Victoria. Nació en Londres en una familia aristocrática partidaria del partido Whig.

Fue educado en Eton y en el Trinity College, Cambridge, Entró en contacto con un grupo de radicales románticos entre los que se encontraban Percy Bysshe Shelley y Lord Byron. En 1805 sucedió a su hermano mayor como heredero al título de su padre y se casó con Lady Caroline Ponsonby. Al año siguiente salió elegido a la Cámara de los Comunes como diputado para Leominster.

(es) 第2代メルバーン子爵ウィリアム・ラム（英語: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount of Melbourne, PC, FRS、1779年3月15日 - 1848年11月24日）は、イギリスの政治家、貴族。 グレイ伯爵退任後のホイッグ党を指導し、ホイッグ党政権の首相を二度にわたって務めた（第一次：1834年、第二次：1835年-1841年）。ウィリアム4世の治世からヴィクトリア朝初期にかけて保守党（トーリー党）党首ロバート・ピールと政権を奪い合った。ヴィクトリア女王即位時の首相であり、女王の寵愛を受けた。1842年に政界の第一線を退き、代わってジョン・ラッセル卿がホイッグ党を指導していく。 (ja) William Lamb (15 maart 1779 - 24 november 1848), 2e burggraaf Melbourne, was

 een Brits politicus.

Hij was lid van de Whig Party en was minister van Binnenlandse Zaken (1830-1834) en minister-president (1834, 1835-1841) van het Verenigd Koninkrijk, en mentor van koningin Victoria. (nl) William Lamb, 2º Visconde Melbourne, PC, FRS (Londres, 15 de março de 1779 — Londres, 24 de novembro de 1848) foi um político whig britânico, primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido (1834 e 1835-1841) e mentor da rainha Vitória. Nasceu em uma família aristocrática, partidária do partido whig. Foi educado em Eton e no Trinity College, Cambridge. Entrou em contato com um grupo de radicais românticos entre os que se encontravam Percy Bysshe Shelley e Lord Byron.

Em 1805, sucedeu a seu irmão mais velho como herdeiro ao título de seu pai e casou-se com Lady Caroline Ponsonby. No ano seguinte elegeu-se para a Câmara dos Comuns como deputado por Leominster. (pt) William Lamb, 2. wicehrabia Melbourne, (ur. 15 marca 1779 w Londynie, zm. 24 listopada 1848 w Brocket Hall w hrabstwie Hertfordshire) – brytyjski polityk ze stronnictwa wigów, ministrem spraw wewnętrznych (Home Secretary, 1830-1834) i dwukrotnie premierem Wielkiej Brytanii (1834 i 1835-1841), a także mentorem i nauczycielem polityki młodej królowej Wiktorii. (pl) Уильям Лэм, 2-й виконт Мельбурн (англ.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne; 15 марта 1779(17790315) — 24 ноября 1848) — британский государственный деятель, 27-й и 30-й премьер-министр Великобритании в 1834 году и с 1835 по 1841 год.

(ru) 第二代墨爾本子爵威廉·兰姆，PC，FRS（William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne，1779年3月15日 - 1848年11月24日），英国辉格党政治家，曾任内政大臣、首相。他曾热情辅导初登皇位的维多利亚。历史学家普遍对墨爾本评价不高，主要是因为他在任期间，既没有发生对外战争，也没有需要解决的国内问题，缺乏大成就、原则不明确。但是，主要研究18世纪的历史学家约翰·加农（John Cannon）称赞他“慈祥、诚实，又无私。” (zh) comment William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848), usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841).

He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles. "But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." Melbourne was dismissed by the King in 1834, the last Prime Minister to have been dismissed by a Monarch. (en) وليم لامب (بالإنجليزية: William Lamb) عرف أيضاً بلقب فيسكونت ملبورن الثاني (بالإنجليزية: 2nd Viscount Melbourne) سياسي بريطاني (15 مارس 1779-24 نوفمبر 1848). تولى رئاسة الوزارة في بريطانيا مرتين: من 16 يوليو إلى 14 نوفمبر 1834.

من 18 ابريل 1835 إلى 30 أغسطس 1841.32x28pxبوابة المملكة المتحدة32x28pxبوابة السياسة32x28pxبوابة أعلام (ar) William Lamb (15 maart 1779 - 24 november 1848), 2e burggraaf Melbourne, was een Brits politicus. Hij was lid van de Whig Party en was minister van Binnenlandse Zaken (1830-1834) en minister-president (1834, 1835-1841) van het Verenigd Koninkrijk, en mentor van koningin Victoria. (nl) William Lamb, 2. wicehrabia Melbourne, (ur. 15 marca 1779 w Londynie, zm.

24 listopada 1848 w Brocket Hall w hrabstwie Hertfordshire) – brytyjski polityk ze stronnictwa wigów, ministrem spraw wewnętrznych (Home Secretary, 1830-1834) i dwukrotnie premierem Wielkiej Brytanii (1834 i 1835-1841), a także mentorem i nauczycielem polityki młodej królowej Wiktorii. (pl) Уильям Лэм, 2-й виконт Мельбурн (англ. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne; 15 марта 1779(17790315) — 24 ноября 1848) — британский государственный деятель, 27-й и 30-й премьер-министр Великобритании в 1834 году и с 1835 по 1841 год.

(ru) 第二代墨爾本子爵威廉·兰姆，PC，FRS（William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne，1779年3月15日 - 1848年11月24日），英国辉格党政治家，曾任内政大臣、首相。他曾热情辅导初登皇位的维多利亚。历史学家普遍对墨爾本评价不高，主要是因为他在任期间，既没有发生对外战争，也没有需要解决的国内问题，缺乏大成就、原则不明确。但是，主要研究18世纪的历史学家约翰·加农（John Cannon）称赞他“慈祥、诚实，又无私。” (zh) William Lamb, 2. Viscount Melbourne, 2. Baron Melbourne of Kilmore, 2. Baron Melbourne of 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).Seine Frau war die Romanautorin Caroline Lamb. Das einzige Kind dieser Ehe, der 1807 geborene Sohn George Augustus Frederick Lamb, starb bereits 1836. Seine Adelstitel erbte sein Bruder Frederick Lamb. (de) William Lamb, II vizconde de Melbourne, miembro del Consejo Privado del Reino Unido, y de la Royal Society (15 de marzo de 1779 – 24 de noviembre de 1848) fue un hombre de estado británico del partido Whig que sirvió como ministro del interior o Home Secretary entre 1830-1834 y como Primer Ministro en 1834 y 1835-1841. También fue mentor de la reina Victoria.

(es) William Lamb (15 mars 1779 – 24 novembre 1848), 2e vicomte de Melbourne, fut un homme d'État britannique du parti whig qui fut secrétaire d'État (1830-1834) et Premier ministre (1834 et 1835-1841), ainsi que mentor de la reine Victoria.En 1839, à la suite de la décision par Lin Zexu, gouverneur général des provinces de Hubei et du Hunan, d'interdire le trafic d'opium en Chine et de détruire les stocks existants à Canton, lord Melbourne réussit à convaincre le Parlement britannique d’y envoyer un corps expéditionnaire, ce qui sera le préambule à la Première guerre de l'opium.

(fr) 第2代メルバーン子爵ウィリアム・ラム（英語: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount of Melbourne, PC, FRS、1779年3月15日 - 1848年11月24日）は、イギリスの政治家、貴族。グレイ伯爵退任後のホイッグ党を指導し、ホイッグ党政権の首相を二度にわたって務めた（第一次：1834年、第二次：1835年-1841年）。ウィリアム4世の治世からヴィクトリア朝初期にかけて保守党（トーリー党）党首ロバート・ピールと政権を奪い合った。ヴィクトリア女王即位時の首相であり、女王の寵愛を受けた。1842年に政界の第一線を退き、代わってジョン・ラッセル卿がホイッグ党を指導していく。 (ja) William Lamb, 2º Visconde Melbourne, PC, FRS (Londres, 15 de março de 1779 — Londres

, 24 de novembro de 1848) foi um político whig britânico, primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido (1834 e 1835-1841) e mentor da rainha Vitória.

(pt) william lamb 2nd viscount melbourne : definition of william lamb 2nd viscount melbourne and synonyms of william lamb 2nd viscount melbourne (English) Trinity College, Cambridge Signature William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC , FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria , at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements and enunciated no grand principles.

"But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." [1] Contents 9 External links Early life Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751–1818) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge , [2] he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron . In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his father's title and he married Lady Caroline Ponsonby . The next year he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster . For the election in 1806 he was moved to the seat of Haddington burghs and for the 1807 election successfully stood for Portarlington (a seat he held until 1812). [3] He first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided: his wife had a public affair with Lord Byron — she coined the famous characterisation of him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".

[4] The resulting scandal was the talk of Britain in 1812. Eventually the two reconciled and though they separated in 1825, her death in 1828 affected him considerably. In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam . He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the Glorious Revolution but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions". [3] He therefore spoke against parliamentary reform and voted for the suspension of habeas corpus in 1817 when sedition was rife. [3] Lamb's hallmark was finding the middle ground. Though a Whig, he accepted (29 April 1827) the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich . Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming Viscount Melbourne, he moved to the House of Lords . He had spent 25 years in Commons as a backbencher and politically was not well known.

[5] Home Secretary: 1830–1834 When the Whigs came to power under Lord Grey in November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During the disturbances of 1830–32 Melbourne "acted both vigorously and sensitively, and it was for this function that his reforming brethren thanked him heartily". [3] In the aftermath of the Swing Riots of 1830–31 he countered the Tory magistrates' alarmism by refusing to resort to military force and instead he advocated magistrates' usual powers be fully enforced along with special constables and financial rewards for the arrest of rioters and rabble-rousers. He appointed a special commission to try approximately one thousand of those arrested and ensured that justice was strictly adhered to: one third were acquitted; and most of the one-fifth sentenced to death were instead transported. [3] The disturbances over reform in 1831–32 were countered with the enforcement of the usual laws and again Melbourne refused to pass emergency legislation against sedition.

[3] Prime Minister: 1834, 1835–1841 After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government. Melbourne was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and hold the Whig party together. Melbourne hesitated after receiving from Grey the letter from the King requesting him to visit him to discuss the formation of a government. Melbourne thought he would not enjoy the extra work that accompanied the office of Premier but he did not want to let his friends and party down. According to Charles Greville , Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: "I think it's a damned bore. I am in many minds as to what to do". Young replied: "Why, damn it all, such a position was never held by any Greek or Roman: and if it only lasts three months, it will be worth while to have been Prime Minister of England [ sic ]. "By God, that's true," Melbourne said, "I'll go!" [6] Compromise was the key to many of Melbourne's actions.

He was opposed in theory to the Reform Act 1832 proposed by the Whigs, but reluctantly believed that they were necessary to forestall the threat of revolution. While he was less radical than many, when Lord Grey resigned (July 1834), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. King William IV 's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir Robert Peel an opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting general election (January 1835) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returned to power under Melbourne in April 1835. This was the last time a British monarch attempted to appoint a government against parliamentary majority. [7] Blackmailed The next year, Melbourne was once again involved in a sex scandal. This time he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, society beauty and author Caroline Norton . The husband demanded £1400, and when he was turned down he accused Melbourne of having an affair with his wife.

[8] At this time such a scandal would be enough to derail a major politician, so it is a measure of the respect contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not fall. The king and the Duke of Wellington urged him to stay on as prime minister. After Norton failed in court, Melbourne was vindicated, but he did stop seeing Lady Norton. [9] Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, "it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic. Spanking sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the whippings administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity." [10] Queen Victoria Melbourne was Prime Minister when Queen Victoria came to the throne (June 1837). Barely eighteen, she was only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the Duchess of Kent , and her mother's advisor, John Conroy . Over the next four years Melbourne trained her in the art of politics and the two became friends: Victoria was quoted as saying she considered him like a father (her own had died when she was only eight months old), and Melbourne's daughter had died at a young age.

Melbourne was given a private apartment at Windsor Castle , and unfounded rumours circulated for a time that Victoria would marry Melbourne, forty years her senior. Tutoring Victoria was the climax of Melbourne's career—the prime minister spent four to five hours a day visiting and writing to her, and she responded with enthusiasm, and grew in wisdom. [11] Lord Melbourne. In May 1839, Melbourne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis . Prospective prime minister Robert Peel requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MPs who made up her personal entourage, arguing that the monarch should avoid any hint of favouritism to a party out of power. As the Queen refused to comply, supported by Melbourne although unaware that Peel had not requested the resignation of all the Queen's ladies as she had led him to believe, Peel refused to form a new government and Melbourne was persuaded to stay on as Prime Minister. Melbourne left a considerable list of reforming legislation – not as long as that of Lord Grey, but worthy nonetheless. Among his administration's acts were a reduction in the number of capital offences, reforms of local government, and the reform of the Poor laws .

This restricted the terms on which the poor were allowed relief and established compulsory admission to workhouses for the impoverished. On 25 February 1841, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society . [12] Later life (1841–1848) Even after Melbourne resigned permanently in August 1841, Victoria continued writing to him but eventually the correspondence ceased as it was seen as inappropriate. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband Prince Albert as well as on herself. On his death his titles passed to his brother Frederick . Legacy The city of Melbourne , Victoria, Australia, was named in his honour in March 1837, as he was the Prime Minister at the time. Another lasting memorial is his favourite, and most famous, dictum in politics: "Why not leave it alone?", quoted by those who object to change for change's sake. Melbourne's governments ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows" . . Retrieved 15 December 2006. References Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 (Oxford 2006).

wide-ranging survey of the era Cameron, R. H. "The Melbourne Administration, the Liberals and the Crisis of 1841," Durham University Journal, 1976, Vol. 69 Issue 1, pp 83–102 Cecil, David. Melbourne (1954), major biography focused on his psychology Cecil, David. The Young Melbourne: And the Story of His Marriage with Caroline Lamb (1939) online edition ; included in 1954 biography Dunkley, Henry ("VERAX"). Lord Melbourne (1890) online Mandler, Peter. ‘ Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) ’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 27 Dec 2009. Marshall, Dorothy. Lord Melbourne (1976) Mitchell, L. G. Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848 (1997) 349p online edition Newbould, I.D.C.

"William IV and the Dismissal of the Whigs, 1834," Canadian Journal of History, Dec 1976, Vol. 11 Issue 3, pp 311–30 Newbould, Ian D. C. "Whiggery and the Dilemma of Reform: Liberals, Radicals, and the Melbourne Administration, 1835-9," Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 1980, Vol. 53 Issue 128, pp 229–241 Ziegler, Philip. Melbourne: A Life of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1976). Primary sources Lord Melbourne's papers edited by Lloyd Charles Sanders (1889); 534pp online edition External links Lemsford Local History Group – Lemsford Village – Cromer Hyde- Stanborough 1779 – 1848 William Lamb The second Lord Melbourne, William who inherited the Hall in 1805 married Caroline Ponsonby who became Lady Caroline Lamb and romantic liaisons were abundant at Brocket Hall.

The wife of had a great passion for the poet Lord Byron and is said to have fallen from her horse at the shock of seeing his funeral cortege passing the Brocket estate; she had not known of his death until that moment. The second Lord Melbourne proved to be more of an individual, going on to become Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, with whom he struck up a close friendship. Victoria herself was another monarch who often stayed at the Hall William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848), usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles.

"But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." Melbourne was dismissed by the King in 1834, the last Prime Minister to have been dismissed by a Monarch. Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751–1818), though his paternity was questioned. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Against the background of the Napoleonic Wars, Lamb served at home as captain (1803) and major (1804) in the Hertfordshire Volunteer Infantry. In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his father's title and he married Lady Caroline Ponsonby. The next year he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster. For the election in 1806 he was moved to the seat of Haddington Burghs and for the 1807 election successfully stood for Portarlington (a seat he held until 1812).

He first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided: his wife had a public affair with Lord Byron—she coined the famous characterisation of him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". The resulting scandal was the talk of Britain in 1812. In 1816 Lady Caroline published a Gothic novel Glenarvon, which portrayed both the marriage and her affair with Byron in a lurid fashion which caused William even greater embarrassment, while the spiteful caricatures of leading society figures made them several influential enemies. Eventually the two reconciled and though they separated in 1825, her death in 1828 affected him considerably. > In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the Glorious Revolution but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions".[4] He therefore spoke against parliamentary reform and voted for the suspension of habeas corpus in 1817 when sedition was rife. Lamb's hallmark was finding the middle ground.

Though a Whig, he accepted (29 April 1827) the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich. Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming Viscount Melbourne, he moved to the House of Lords. He had spent 25 years in Commons as a backbencher and politically was not well known. Home Secretary: 1830–1834 When the Whigs came to power under Lord Grey in November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During the disturbances of 1830–32 Melbourne "acted both vigorously and sensitively, and it was for this function that his reforming brethren thanked him heartily".[4] In the aftermath of the Swing Riots of 1830–31 he countered the Tory magistrates' alarmism by refusing to resort to military force and instead he advocated magistrates' usual powers be fully enforced along with special constables and financial rewards for the arrest of rioters and rabble-rousers.

He appointed a special commission to try approximately one thousand of those arrested and ensured that justice was strictly adhered to: one third were acquitted; and most of the one-fifth sentenced to death were instead transported.The disturbances over reform in 1831–32 were countered with the enforcement of the usual laws and again Melbourne refused to pass emergency legislation against sedition. Prime Minister: 1834, 1835–1841 After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government. Melbourne was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and hold the Whig party together. Melbourne hesitated after receiving from Grey the letter from the King requesting him to visit him to discuss the formation of a government. Melbourne thought he would not enjoy the extra work that accompanied the office of Premier but he did not want to let his friends and party down. According to Charles Greville, Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: "I think it's a damned bore. I am in many minds as to what to do".

Young replied: "Why, damn it all, such a position was never held by any Greek or Roman: and if it only lasts three months, it will be worth while to have been Prime Minister of England [sic]." "By God, that's true," Melbourne said, "I'll go!" Compromise was the key to many of Melbourne's actions. As an aristocrat, he had a vested interest in the status quo. He was opposed to the Reform Act 1832 proposed by the Whigs, arguing that Catholic emancipation had not ended in the tranquility expected of it,[8] but reluctantly agreed that they were necessary to forestall the threat of revolution. Later he opposed the repeal of the Corn Laws arguing not only had Catholic emancipation failed, but also that the reform bill had not improved the condition of the people.While he was less radical than many, when Lord Grey resigned (July 1834), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. King William IV's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir Robert Peel an opportunity to form a government.

Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting general election (January 1835) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returned to power under Melbourne in April 1835. This was the last time a British monarch attempted to appoint a government against parliamentary majority. Blackmailed The next year, Melbourne was once again involved in a sex scandal. This time he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The husband demanded £1400, and when he was turned down he accused Melbourne of having an affair with his wife.At this time such a scandal would be enough to derail a major politician, so it is a measure of the respect contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not fall. The king and the Duke of Wellington urged him to stay on as prime minister. After Norton failed in court, Melbourne was vindicated, but he did stop seeing Mrs Norton. Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, "it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic.

Spanking sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the whippings administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity." Queen Victoria Melbourne was Prime Minister when Queen Victoria came to the throne (June 1837). Barely eighteen, she was only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the Duchess of Kent, and her mother's advisor, Sir John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourne trained her in the art of politics and the two became friends: Victoria was quoted as saying she considered him like a father (her own had died when she was only eight months old), and Melbourne's daughter had died at a young age. Melbourne was given a private apartment at Windsor Castle, and unfounded rumours circulated for a time that Victoria would marry Melbourne, forty years her senior. Tutoring Victoria was the climax of Melbourne's career—the prime minister spent four to five hours a day visiting and writing to her, and she responded with enthusiasm, and grew in wisdom. Continued rule In May 1839, Melbourne's resignation led to the Bedchamber Crisis.

Prospective prime minister Robert Peel requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MPs who made up her personal entourage, arguing that the monarch should avoid any hint of favouritism to a party out of power. As the Queen refused to comply, supported by Melbourne although unaware that Peel had not requested the resignation of all the Queen's ladies as she had led him to believe, Peel refused to form a new government and Melbourne was persuaded to stay on as Prime Minister. Melbourne left a considerable list of reforming legislation—not as long as that of Lord Grey, but worthy nonetheless. Among his government's acts were a reduction in the number of capital offences, reforms of local government, and the reform of the Poor laws. This restricted the terms on which the poor were allowed relief and established compulsory admission to workhouses for the impoverished. Later life (1841–1848) Even after Melbourne resigned permanently in August 1841, Victoria continued writing to him but eventually the correspondence ceased as it was seen as inappropriate. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband Prince Albert as well as on herself.

On his death his titles passed to his brother Frederick, as both of his children—a son, George Augustus Frederick (b. 1807) and a premature daughter (b. 1809)—had predeceased him. Image from LLHG Lord Melbourne Quotes. QuotesGram Subscribe Lord Melbourne — British Statesman born on December 30, 1779, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, PC FRS was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary and Prime Minister. He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18–21, in the ways of politics. Historians conclude that Melbourne does not rank high as a prime minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles. "But he was kind, honest, and not self-seeking." Melbourne was dismissed by the King in 1834, the last Prime Minister to have been dismissed by a Monarch... (wikipedia) Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. 5 Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

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Question: As PM, William Lamb, aka Viscount Melbourne, mentored and served which monarch?
Answer: Victoria