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30 de ago. de 2022 · Death: April 06, 1818 (66-67) Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, England. Place of Burial: Hatfield, Hertfordsire, England, United Kingdom. Immediate Family: Daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet and Elizabeth Milbanke. Wife of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. Partner of George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, FRS.
1 de ago. de 2018 · At a time of emerging women leaders, the life of Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne, the shrewdest political hostess of the Georgian period, is particularly intriguing. It was Byron who called her ‘Lady M’ and it was Byron’s tempestuous and very public affair with Elizabeth’s daughter-in-law Lady Caroline Lamb that was the scandal of the age.
Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (née Milbanke; 1751 – 1818) was one of the most influential of the political hostesses of the extended Regency period, and the wife of Whig politician Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne.She was the mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and several other influential children.
L ord Byron, shortly before his brief, doomed marriage to her niece Annabella Milbanke, described Elizabeth Lamb, Lady Melbourne (known to the admiring young poet as Lady M), as ‘the best friend I ever had in my life, and the cleverest of women’. Lady Holland, a rival hostess in Georgian London, compared Elizabeth to the scheming Marquise de Merteuil of Laclos’s great novel, Les Liaisons ...
15 de ene. de 2013 · Gross, Jonathan David, Lamb, Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn May 2008, accessed 12 Nov 2012) Huish, Robert, Memoirs of her late royal highness Charlotte Augusta (1818) Lee, Elizabeth, Wives of the Prime Ministers 1844-1906 (1918)
Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818). Viscountess Melbourne was married to Sir Penniston Lamb MP and was an ‘enthusiastic manager of her husband’s political interests’. The couple were family friends of the poet Lord Byron. Their son became Prime Minister.
Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 128-30, 134-5. Family and Intimate relationships. Lady Caroline Lamb. After almost a year's separation, Byron and LCL had a meeting brokered by Lady Melbourne and Lady Bessborough with the idea of convincing Caroline that the affair was over. View reference. Douglass, Paul.
