Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

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...

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

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...

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...

Ada's mother, Lady Noel Byron , née Anne Isabella (generally called Annabella) Milbanke, was an active philanthropist and had mathematical interests that led Byron to dub her the Princess of Parallelograms. She was a...

There also arose the question of whether the ceremony was to be public or private. Lord Melbourne convinced QV , despite her hesitation, that a public ceremony was the only viable option, and she was...

Lady Caroline Ponsonby married William Lamb (who some months after her death was to become Lord Melbourne and later again Prime Minister).

William Lamb , as a new MP, made his maiden speech by invitation immediately following the Speech from the Throne: LCL attended in men's clothes in the Strangers' Gallery to hear him.

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.