Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

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.

With the king close to death, Princess Alexandrina Victoria was pressed from all political sides to align herself with an advisor and party; she chose Lord Melbourne .

QV 's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics—she helped...

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...

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 ...

This amount was increased to £300 by Lord Melbourne in May 1837.

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...

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...

Lord Melbourne , who got Sydney Morgan her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK 's annual award of £50.

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...

Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later. The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...

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...

The pamphlet was not well received: the public appeared to be suffering from compassion fatigue. In opposing CN 's plan of writing to the Times, Melbourne called her a sobbing, moaning, and complaining woman...

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 .

Nearly a century after her death, The Letters of Caroline Norton to Lord Melbourne were published.