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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.
30 de ago. de 2022 · About Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne. "Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (née Elizabeth 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 ...
15 de ago. de 2018 · Lady M is the story of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818), a powerful and ambitious Georgian socialite and political hostess for the Whigs. Lady Melbourne is much less known than her son William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who became Prime Minister to William IV and Queen Victoria, or her intimate friend, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
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 (born 25 October 1777) William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 1779– 24 November 1848) Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne (17 April 1782 – 29 January 1853) Hon. George Lamb (11 July 1784 – 2 January 1834) Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper (1787–1869) Harriet Lamb (1789–1803)
other name:Milbanke, Elizabeth. Details. individual; British; Female. Life dates. c. 1751-1818. Biography. Political hostess and agricultural improver; daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, married Sir Peniston Lamb in 1769. Despite a 'cynical' view of marriage, she took great interest in her husband's estate, as well as using her political ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · Lord 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 ...
