Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

Standard Name: Melbourne, Henry William Lamb,,, second Viscount
Used Form: Lord Melbourne
Used Form: William Lamb

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Wealth and Poverty Adelaide O'Keeffe
Lord Melbourne , who got Sydney Morgan her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK 's annual award of £50.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Violence Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL later described to Sydney Morgan the episode which she called my fracas with the page, which made such noise,
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 201
and which she regarded as a crucial step towards her eventual legal separation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charles Dickens
The first issues contained loosely linked, picaresque, and quite satirical episodes resulting from the travels of Mr Pickwick and members of his eponymous club. As The Pickwick Papers progressed, the linearity of the plot strengthened...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...
Textual Production Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne 's Whigs after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a...
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW published The Marriage of William Ashe, a novel inspired by the Romantic-era relationship between the writer Lady Caroline Lamb and her husband, William Lamb , later the prime minister Lord Melbourne.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
243
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Frances Arabella Rowden
It is dedicated to Sir John Aubrey of Dorton House, Buckinghamshire, a Tory baronet and member of parliament, with praise for his integrity of principle and spirit of patriotism and for his private or domestic...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
Nearly a century after her death, The Letters of Caroline Norton to Lord Melbourne were published.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Caroline Norton
She seems to have written this pamphlet partly as a more acceptable alternative to writing a letter to the Times, which Lord Melbourne had begged her not to do because of the scandalous publicity...
Textual Features Caroline Norton
Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS.
The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...
Textual Features Lady Caroline Lamb
Using as a foundation her affair with Byron (not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass thinks the fourteen lyrics included in...
Reception Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was granted by Lord Melbourne a Civil List pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 195, 197
Reception Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Lord Melbourne offered Sydney, Lady Morgan , a Crown pension of three hundred pounds a year; she gladly accepted. She had been a close and supportive friend of Melbourne's first wife, Lady Caroline Lamb ...
Reception Mary Somerville
This amount was increased to £300 by Lord Melbourne in May 1837.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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Timeline

December 1825: The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed,...

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December 1825

The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.

16 July 1834: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, a Whig, became...

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16 July 1834

William Lamb, Lord Melbourne , a Whig, became Prime Minister after Lord Grey 's resignation.

18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...

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18 April 1835

After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in the House of Commons , the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne (William Lamb , a Whig) was formed.

30 August 1841: The Whig government under Melbourne fell...

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30 August 1841

The Whig government under Melbourne fell on the issue of Corn Laws (which they failed to get through parliament) and, following an election next month, the Tory Sir Robert Peel became Prime Minister.

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