Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

George Norton initiated divorce proceedings by bringing an action in the Court of Common Pleas against Lord Melbourne , then the Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (i.e. adultery) with CN .

LCL 's mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne , and sister-in-law, Lady Emily Cowper (later Palmerston) , were said to be seriously trying to end LCL 's marriage to William Lamb because of her notoriety.

A deed of legal separation between LCL and William Lamb was drawn up and finally signed by both parties.

CN delighted in public flirtation, and from fairly early in her marriage gossip linked her name first with this man and then with that. Her long-time friendship with Lord Melbourne became closer after he had...

Meanwhile she asked her husband for a divorce; if he refused that, she hoped to negotiate a separation. But on April the first he advertised in the newspapers to announce that she had left him...

For a while after the separation CN pursued Melbourne with letters in an attempt to revive their intimacy, which in her isolation she sorely missed. He held her firmly at a distance. She accused him...

At the same time that LCL had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by...

By the last wish of Melbourne , who died in November 1848, CN began receiving an allowance (probably of £200 a year) from his sister. When her mother died on 9 June 1851 she inherited...

William Lamb now set about having articles of legal separation drawn up in accordance with the wishes of his family.

He added that there had been only one thing that she had wanted—reunion with her husband —and that this experience she lived just long enough to have. William Lamb, whose political career was now gathering...