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Viscount Melbourne – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="William Lamb, 2. Viscount Melbourne" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb" title="William Lamb – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="William Lamb" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb_(Melbourneko_II._bizkondea)" title="William Lamb (Melbourneko II. bizkondea) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="William Lamb (Melbourneko II. bizkondea)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8_%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86" title="ویلیام لمب وایکنت ملبورن – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویلیام لمب وایکنت ملبورن" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb_(Lord_Melbourne)" title="William Lamb (Lord Melbourne) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="William Lamb (Lord Melbourne)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2%C3%BA_B%C3%ADocunta_Melbourne" title="William Lamb, 2ú Bíocunta Melbourne – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="William Lamb, 2ú Bíocunta Melbourne" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2na_Biocas_Melbourne" title="William Lamb, 2na Biocas Melbourne – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="William Lamb, 2na Biocas Melbourne" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C2%EB%8C%80_%EB%A9%9C%EB%B2%84%EB%A5%B8_%EC%9E%90%EC%9E%91_%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EB%9E%A8" title="제2대 멜버른 자작 윌리엄 램 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="제2대 멜버른 자작 윌리엄 램" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_Viscount_Melbourne_II" title="William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne II – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne II" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_v%C3%ADsigreifi_af_Melbourne" title="William Lamb, vísigreifi af Melbourne – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="William Lamb, vísigreifi af Melbourne" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_II_visconte_Melbourne" title="William Lamb, II visconte Melbourne – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="William Lamb, II visconte Melbourne" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%9D" title="ויליאם לם – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ויליאם לם" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A3%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="უილიამ ლამბი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="უილიამ ლამბი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2sa_Isyurl_Melbourne" title="William Lamb, 2sa Isyurl Melbourne – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="William Lamb, 2sa Isyurl Melbourne" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulielmus_Lamb" title="Gulielmus Lamb – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Gulielmus Lamb" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb" title="William Lamb – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="William Lamb" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb" title="William Lamb – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="William Lamb" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%AC" title="विल्यम लँब – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="विल्यम लँब" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8" title="وليام لامب – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" 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For other holders of the title, see <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Melbourne" title="Viscount Melbourne">Viscount Melbourne</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">The Viscount Melbourne</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Ireland" title="Privy Council of Ireland">PC (Ire)</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg/220px-William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg/330px-William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg/440px-William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3044" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_Lord_Melbourne_(Partridge)" title="Portrait of Lord Melbourne (Partridge)">Portrait of Lord Melbourne</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Partridge_(artist)" title="John Partridge (artist)">John Partridge</a>, 1844</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />18 April 1835 – 30 August 1841</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarchs</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_IV" title="William IV">William IV</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Victoria</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Robert Peel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Peel</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />16 July 1834 – 14 November 1834</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data">William IV</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Earl_Grey" class="mw-redirect" title="The Earl Grey">The Earl Grey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Duke of Wellington">The Duke of Wellington</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(United_Kingdom)" title="Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)">Leader of the Opposition</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 August 1841 – October 1842</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Peel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lord_John_Russell" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord John Russell">Lord John Russell</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />14 November 1834 – 18 April 1835</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">The Duke of Wellington</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Peel</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Leader of the House of Lords">Leader of the House of Lords</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />18 April 1835 – 30 August 1841</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">The Duke of Wellington</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">The Duke of Wellington</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />16 July 1834 – 14 November 1834</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">The Earl Grey</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">The Duke of Wellington</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 November 1830 – 16 July 1834</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Peel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Ponsonby,_4th_Earl_of_Bessborough" title="John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough">The Viscount Duncannon</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_for_Ireland" title="Chief Secretary for Ireland">Chief Secretary for Ireland</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />29 April 1827 – 21 June 1828</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Goulburn" title="Henry Goulburn">Henry Goulburn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Francis_Leveson-Gower" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Francis Leveson-Gower">Lord Francis Leveson-Gower</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Henry William Lamb<sup id="cite_ref-cantab_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cantab-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1779-03-15</span>)</span>15 March 1779<br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">24 November 1848<span style="display:none">(1848-11-24)</span> (aged 69)<br /><a href="/wiki/Brocket_Hall" title="Brocket Hall">Brocket Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/St_Etheldreda%27s_Church,_Hatfield" title="St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield">St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Whig_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Whig Party">Whig</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Lady_Caroline_Ponsonby" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Caroline Ponsonby">Lady Caroline Ponsonby</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="3 June 1805">1805</span>; died <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="25 January 1828">1828</span>)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Stillborn child<br />George Augustus Frederick<br />A daughter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peniston_Lamb,_1st_Viscount_Melbourne" title="Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne">Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Milbanke" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Milbanke">Elizabeth Milbanke</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne's signature"><img alt="Cursive signature in ink" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg/128px-William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg/192px-William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg/256px-William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="304" data-file-height="70" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Henry William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Ireland" title="Privy Council of Ireland">PC (Ire)</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span></span> (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British <a href="/wiki/Whig_(political_faction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whig (political faction)">Whig</a> politician who served as the <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> and twice as the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a>. </p><p>His first premiership ended when he was dismissed by <a href="/wiki/King_William_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="King William IV">King William IV</a> in 1834, the last British prime minister to be dismissed by a monarch. Five months later, he was re-appointed and served for six more years, into the reign of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>. He is best known for helping Victoria settle into her role as Queen, acting almost as her private secretary, and the political scandals that resulted from it, most notably the <a href="/wiki/Bedchamber_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedchamber Crisis">Bedchamber Crisis</a>. His legacy as prime minister was not favourable, as he had no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, and he was involved in several political scandals in the early years of Victoria's reign. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In 1779, William Lamb was born in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to an aristocratic <a href="/wiki/British_Whig_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Whig Party">Whig</a> family, and was the son of <a href="/wiki/Peniston_Lamb,_1st_Viscount_Melbourne" title="Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne">Peniston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Lamb,_Viscountess_Melbourne" title="Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne">Elizabeth Lamb</a> (1751–1818). However, his paternity was questioned, being attributed to <a href="/wiki/George_Wyndham,_3rd_Earl_of_Egremont" title="George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont">George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont</a>, to whom it was considered he bore a considerable resemblance, and at whose <a href="/wiki/Petworth_House" title="Petworth House">residence</a> he was a visitor until the Earl's death. Lamb was called to Egremont's bedside when Egremont was dying but,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nevertheless, stated that Egremont being his father was "all a lie".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Hoppner_(1758-1810)_-_William_Lamb_(1779-1848),_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/John_Hoppner_%281758-1810%29_-_William_Lamb_%281779-1848%29%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/160px-John_Hoppner_%281758-1810%29_-_William_Lamb_%281779-1848%29%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/John_Hoppner_%281758-1810%29_-_William_Lamb_%281779-1848%29%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/240px-John_Hoppner_%281758-1810%29_-_William_Lamb_%281779-1848%29%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/John_Hoppner_%281758-1810%29_-_William_Lamb_%281779-1848%29%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/320px-John_Hoppner_%281758-1810%29_-_William_Lamb_%281779-1848%29%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_RCIN_400973_-_Royal_Collection.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1318" data-file-height="1650" /></a><figcaption>Portrait by <a href="/wiki/John_Hoppner" title="John Hoppner">John Hoppner</a>, 1796</figcaption></figure> <p>Lamb was educated at <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton</a>, then at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a>, where he was admitted in 1796 and graduated a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambridge,_and_Dublin)" title="Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)">Master of Arts</a> in 1799,<sup id="cite_ref-cantab_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cantab-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and finally at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a> (1799–1801), where he was a resident pupil of Professor <a href="/wiki/John_Millar_(philosopher)" title="John Millar (philosopher)">John Millar</a> alongside his younger brother <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lamb,_3rd_Viscount_Melbourne" title="Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne">Frederick</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Admitted to <a href="/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn" title="Lincoln's Inn">Lincoln's Inn</a> in 1797, Lamb was <a href="/wiki/Called_to_the_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the bar">called to the bar</a> in 1804.<sup id="cite_ref-cantab_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cantab-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Against the background of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>, Lamb served at home as <a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">Captain</a> (1803) and <a href="/wiki/Major_(United_Kingdom)" title="Major (United Kingdom)">Major</a> (1804) in the Hertfordshire Volunteer Infantry.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lamb succeeded his elder brother <a href="/wiki/Peniston_Lamb_(1770%E2%80%931805)" title="Peniston Lamb (1770–1805)">Peniston</a> as heir to his father's title in 1805 (and as captain of the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Troop,_Hertfordshire_Yeomanry" class="mw-redirect" title="Midland Troop, Hertfordshire Yeomanry">Midland Troop, Hertfordshire Yeomanry</a>, when he resigned his commission in the Volunteer Infantry<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and married <a href="/wiki/Lady_Caroline_Ponsonby" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Caroline Ponsonby">Lady Caroline Ponsonby</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Irish">Anglo-Irish</a> aristocrat. After two miscarriages and a stillborn child, she gave birth to George Augustus Frederick in 1807 and was devoted to him. George was <a href="/wiki/Epileptic" class="mw-redirect" title="Epileptic">epileptic</a> and mentally handicapped, requiring significant medical care. He died in 1836.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1809, they had a daughter. She was born prematurely and lived only one day.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career">Early political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_to_Parliament">Election to Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Election to Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following year, Lamb was elected to the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">British House of Commons</a> as the Whig MP for <a href="/wiki/Leominster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)">Leominster</a>. For the election in 1806 he moved to the seat of <a href="/wiki/Haddington_Burghs" class="mw-redirect" title="Haddington Burghs">Haddington Burghs</a>, and for the 1807 election he successfully stood for <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)">Portarlington</a> (a seat he held until 1812).<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lamb first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided: his wife had a public affair with <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a> – she coined the famous characterisation of Byron as "mad, bad and dangerous to know".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resulting scandal was the talk of Britain in 1812.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Lady Caroline published a Gothic novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Glenarvon" title="Glenarvon">Glenarvon</a></i>, in 1816; this portrayed both the marriage and her affair with Byron in a lurid fashion, which caused William even greater embarrassment, while the spiteful caricatures of leading society figures made them several influential enemies. Eventually the two were reconciled, and, though they separated in 1825, her death in 1828 affected him considerably.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Member_of_Parliament">Member of Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Member of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Lawrence_(1769-1830)_-_William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg/220px-Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg/330px-Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg/440px-Thomas_Lawrence_%281769-1830%29_-_William_Lamb%2C_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne_-_NPG_5185_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="666" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_Lord_Melbourne_(Lawrence)" title="Portrait of Lord Melbourne (Lawrence)">Portrait of Lord Melbourne</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence" title="Thomas Lawrence">Thomas Lawrence</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1805</span></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1816, Lamb was returned for <a href="/wiki/Peterborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Peterborough</a> by Whig grandee <a href="/wiki/William_Fitzwilliam,_4th_Earl_Fitzwilliam" title="William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam">Lord Fitzwilliam</a>. He told <a href="/wiki/Henry_Vassall-Fox,_3rd_Baron_Holland" title="Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland">Lord Holland</a> that he was committed to the Whig principles of the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions".<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He, therefore, spoke against parliamentary reform, and voted for the suspension of <i><a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a></i> in 1817 when <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a> was rife.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lamb's hallmark was finding the middle ground. Though a Whig, he accepted the post of <a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_for_Ireland" title="Chief Secretary for Ireland">Chief Secretary for Ireland</a> in the moderate Tory governments of <a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">George Canning</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Goderich" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Goderich">Lord Goderich</a> on 29 April 1827. Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming the 2nd <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Melbourne" title="Viscount Melbourne">Viscount Melbourne</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Kilmore,_County_Cavan" title="Kilmore, County Cavan">Kilmore</a> in the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Cavan" class="mw-redirect" title="County of Cavan">County of Cavan</a>, he moved to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>. He had spent 25 years in the Commons, largely as a <a href="/wiki/Backbencher" title="Backbencher">backbencher</a>, and was not politically well known.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Home_Secretary">Home Secretary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Home Secretary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November 1830, the Whigs came to power under <a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Lord Grey</a>. Melbourne was Home Secretary. During the disturbances of 1830–32 he "acted both vigorously and sensitively, and it was for this function that his reforming brethren thanked him heartily".<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Swing_Riots" title="Swing Riots">Swing Riots</a> of 1830–31, he countered the Tory magistrates' <a href="/wiki/Alarmism" title="Alarmism">alarmism</a> by refusing to resort to military force; instead, he advocated magistrates' usual powers be fully enforced, along with special constables and financial rewards for the arrest of rioters and rabble-rousers. He appointed a special commission to try approximately 1,000 of those arrested, and ensured that justice was strictly adhered to: one-third were acquitted and most of the one-fifth sentenced to death were instead transported.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There remains controversy regarding the hanging of <a href="/wiki/Dic_Penderyn" title="Dic Penderyn">Dic Penderyn</a>, a protester in the <a href="/wiki/Merthyr_Rising" title="Merthyr Rising">Merthyr Rising</a> who was then, and is now, widely judged to have been innocent. He appears to have been executed solely on the word of Melbourne, who sought a victim in order to "set an example".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The disturbances over reform in 1831–32 were countered with the enforcement of the usual laws; again, Melbourne refused to pass emergency legislation against sedition.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melbourne supported the 1834 prosecution and <a href="/wiki/Penal_transportation" title="Penal transportation">transportation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tolpuddle_Martyrs" title="Tolpuddle Martyrs">Tolpuddle Martyrs</a> to <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> for their attempts to protest against the cutting of agricultural wages. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prime_Minister">Prime Minister<span class="anchor" id="First_premiership"></span><span class="anchor" id="Second_premiership"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Prime Minister"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Government">Government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Whig_government,_1830%E2%80%931834" title="Whig government, 1830–1834">Whig government, 1830–1834</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Melbourne_ministry" title="Second Melbourne ministry">Second Melbourne ministry</a></div> <p>After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, William IV was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government. Melbourne, who was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and to hold the Whig Party together, hesitated after receiving from Grey a letter from the King requesting Melbourne to visit him to discuss the formation of a government. Melbourne feared he would not enjoy the extra work that accompanied the office of Premier, but he did not want to let his friends and party down. According to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Greville_(diarist)" title="Charles Greville (diarist)">Charles Greville</a>, Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: "I think it's a damned bore. I am in many minds as to what to do". Young replied: "Why, damn it all, such a position was never held by any Greek or Roman: and if it only lasts three months, it will be worthwhile to have been Prime Minister of England [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>]." "By God, that's true", Melbourne said, "I'll go!"<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Compromise was the key to many of Melbourne's actions. He was personally opposed to the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Act_1832" title="Reform Act 1832">Reform Act 1832</a> proposed by the Whigs and later opposed the repeal of the <a href="/wiki/Corn_Laws" title="Corn Laws">Corn Laws</a>, but he reluctantly agreed to both.<sup id="cite_ref-Cecil,_David_1954_p.422_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cecil,_David_1954_p.422-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melbourne was also a strong supporter of slavery.<sup id="cite_ref-Lord_Melbourne_1848,_pp._198-199_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lord_Melbourne_1848,_pp._198-199-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He called <a href="/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833" title="Slavery Abolition Act 1833">Britain's abolition of slavery</a> in 1833 a "great folly" and said that if he had had his own way (as opposed to what many Whigs wanted), he would "have done nothing at all!"<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had told his sister-in-law that "slavery was a matter of necessity", was hesitant to pressure foreign governments about slavery, and saw slavery as "no bar to the recognition of <a href="/wiki/Texas_Revolution" title="Texas Revolution">Texan independence</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Lord_Melbourne_1848,_pp._198-199_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lord_Melbourne_1848,_pp._198-199-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>William IV's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in November. He then gave the Tories under Sir <a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Robert Peel</a> an opportunity to form a government. Peel's failure to win a House of Commons majority in the resulting <a href="/wiki/1835_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1835 United Kingdom general election">general election</a> (January 1835) made it impossible for him to govern, and the Whigs returned to power under Melbourne that April. This was the last time a British monarch attempted to appoint a government to suit his own preferences.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blackmail">Blackmail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Blackmail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg/220px-A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg/330px-A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg/440px-A_large_sheep_with_the_head_of_a_man_perches_on_the_knees_of_Wellcome_V0050210.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3011" data-file-height="2357" /></a><figcaption>Cartoon about the affair by John Doyle. Credit: Wellcome Collection</figcaption></figure> <p>The next year, Melbourne was once again involved in a sex scandal. This time, he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, the society beauty and author <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Norton" title="Caroline Norton">Caroline Norton</a>. The husband demanded £1,400, and when he was turned down, he accused Melbourne of having an affair with his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At that time, such a scandal would have been enough to derail a major politician and so it is a measure of the respect that contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not fall. The King and the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a> urged him to stay on as prime minister. After Norton failed in court, Melbourne was vindicated, but he stopped seeing Caroline Norton.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_Scandal">Further Scandal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further Scandal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As the historian <a href="/wiki/Boyd_Hilton" title="Boyd Hilton">Boyd Hilton</a> concludes, "it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic. <a href="/wiki/Spanking" title="Spanking">Spanking</a> sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the <a href="/wiki/Whipping" class="mw-redirect" title="Whipping">whippings</a> administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Queen_Victoria">Queen Victoria</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Queen Victoria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melbourne was Prime Minister when <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> came to the throne (June 1837). Barely eighteen, she was only just breaking free from <a href="/wiki/Kensington_System" title="Kensington System">the domineering influence</a> of her mother, the <a href="/wiki/Princess_Victoria_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">Duchess of Kent</a>, and her mother's adviser, <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Conroy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Conroy">Sir John Conroy</a>. Over the next four years, Melbourne trained her in the art of politics, and the two became friends: Victoria was quoted describing him as a father figure (her own had died when she was eight months old), and Melbourne's son had died at a young age.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melbourne was given a private apartment at <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Castle" title="Windsor Castle">Windsor Castle</a>, and unfounded rumours circulated for a time that Victoria would marry Melbourne, 40 years her senior. Tutoring Victoria was the climax of Melbourne's career: the prime minister spent four to five hours a day visiting and writing to her, and she responded with enthusiasm.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Francis_Grant_(1803-78)_-_Queen_Victoria_(1819-1901)_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sir_Francis_Grant_%281803-78%29_-_Queen_Victoria_%281819-1901%29_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/220px-Sir_Francis_Grant_%281803-78%29_-_Queen_Victoria_%281819-1901%29_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sir_Francis_Grant_%281803-78%29_-_Queen_Victoria_%281819-1901%29_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/330px-Sir_Francis_Grant_%281803-78%29_-_Queen_Victoria_%281819-1901%29_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Sir_Francis_Grant_%281803-78%29_-_Queen_Victoria_%281819-1901%29_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg/440px-Sir_Francis_Grant_%281803-78%29_-_Queen_Victoria_%281819-1901%29_riding_out_-_RCIN_400749_-_Royal_Collection.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1448" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria_Riding_Out" title="Queen Victoria Riding Out">Queen Victoria Riding Out</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Grant_(artist)" title="Francis Grant (artist)">Francis Grant</a><i>, 1840</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Lord Melbourne's tutoring of Victoria took place against a background of two damaging political events: first, the <a href="/wiki/Lady_Flora_Hastings" title="Lady Flora Hastings">Lady Flora Hastings</a> affair, followed not long after by the <a href="/wiki/Bedchamber_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedchamber Crisis">Bedchamber Crisis</a>. Victoria's reputation suffered in an 1839 court intrigue when Hastings, one of her mother's ladies-in-waiting, developed an abdominal growth that was widely rumoured to be an out-of-wedlock pregnancy by Sir John Conroy.<sup id="cite_ref-Hibbert_p._77-78_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hibbert_p._77-78-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Victoria believed the rumours, as did Lord Melbourne.<sup id="cite_ref-Hibbert_p._77-78_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hibbert_p._77-78-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Victoria told Melbourne of her suspicions, he planted the idea in her head that her mother, <a href="/wiki/Princess_Victoria_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" title="Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld">the Duchess of Kent</a>, was jealous of Hastings's closeness to Conroy, which made Victoria excited and more resolute on the matter.<sup id="cite_ref-Weintraub,_119_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weintraub,_119-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initially, Melbourne "suggested quiet watchfulness" over Hastings's body changes.<sup id="cite_ref-Weintraub,_119_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weintraub,_119-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But after the court physician, Sir James Clarke, had examined Hastings and generally concluded she wasn't pregnant, Melbourne was wholly persuaded Hastings must be pregnant from a throwaway comment that Clarke made about the appearance of virginity in spite of pregnancy. Melbourne immediately informed the queen. When Victoria observed to him that Hastings had not been seen in public for a while because "she was so sick," Melbourne "repeated, 'Sick?' with what the queen described as 'a significant laugh.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_affairs">Foreign affairs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Foreign affairs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Rebellions_of_1837%E2%80%931838" title="Rebellions of 1837–1838">Rebellions of 1837–1838</a> led directly to <a href="/wiki/John_Lambton,_1st_Earl_of_Durham" title="John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham">Lord Durham</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Report_on_the_Affairs_of_British_North_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Report on the Affairs of British North America">Report on the Affairs of British North America</a></i> and to <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Union_1840" title="Act of Union 1840">The British North America Act, 1840</a> which established a new political entity, the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a>. </p><p>The Whig cabinet under Melbourne decided on 1 October 1839 to send an expeditionary force to China to protect British interests in the trafficking of <a href="/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a> into China, against the wishes of the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Daoguang_Emperor" title="Daoguang Emperor">Daoguang Emperor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/First_Opium_War" title="First Opium War">First Opium War</a> was fought between China and the United Kingdom from 1839 to 1842, one of the outcomes of the war was that <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> would be ceded to the UK and become a British crown colony. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="First Anglo-Afghan War">First Anglo-Afghan War</a> occurred between 1839 and 1842. At the beginning of the conflict, the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> troops had defeated the forces of Afghan Emir and in 1839 occupied <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi" title="Treaty of Waitangi">Treaty of Waitangi</a> was signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" title="Māori people">Māori</a> chiefs. In November 1840 a royal charter was signed by Queen Victoria, establishing <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Crown_colony" title="Crown colony">Crown colony</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rule_and_resignation">Rule and resignation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Rule and resignation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne" title="Special:EditPage/William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Taking_of_Chusan_(satire).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The_Taking_of_Chusan_%28satire%29.jpg/220px-The_Taking_of_Chusan_%28satire%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The_Taking_of_Chusan_%28satire%29.jpg/330px-The_Taking_of_Chusan_%28satire%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The_Taking_of_Chusan_%28satire%29.jpg/440px-The_Taking_of_Chusan_%28satire%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1079" data-file-height="759" /></a><figcaption>Satire of the <a href="/wiki/Bedchamber_crisis" title="Bedchamber crisis">Bedchamber crisis</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Doyle_(Irish_artist)" title="John Doyle (Irish artist)">John Doyle</a>, 31 December 1840</figcaption></figure> <p>On 7 May 1839, Melbourne intended to resign, which began a series of events that led to the <a href="/wiki/Bedchamber_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedchamber Crisis">Bedchamber Crisis</a>. A prospective prime minister, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Robert Peel</a>, requested that Victoria dismiss some of the wives and daughters of Whig MPs who made up her personal entourage, arguing that the monarch should avoid any hint of favouritism to a party out of power. The Queen refused to comply and was supported by Melbourne although he was unaware that Peel had not requested the resignation of all of the Queen's ladies, as she had led him to believe — and hence, Peel refused to form a new government, and Melbourne was persuaded to stay on as Prime Minister.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among his government's Acts were a reduction in the number of capital offences, reforms of local government, and the <a href="/wiki/Poor_Law_Amendment_Act_1834" title="Poor Law Amendment Act 1834">reform of the Poor laws</a>. This restricted the terms on which the poor were allowed relief and established compulsory admission to <a href="/wiki/Workhouse" title="Workhouse">workhouses</a> for the impoverished.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After Victoria fell in love with and became engaged to <a href="/wiki/Prince_Albert_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha" title="Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha">Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha</a> on 15 October 1839, Melbourne helped to push through approval for the marriage in parliament, although with some stumbling blocks, including Victoria's insistence that Albert be made <a href="/wiki/King_consort" class="mw-redirect" title="King consort">king consort</a>, to which Melbourne asked Victoria "to hear no more of it."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199784,_86,_88_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199784,_86,_88-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the eve of Victoria's wedding on 10 February 1840, Melbourne reported Victoria being "very angry" with him after she had remarked it pleased her Albert did not look at other women, only for Melbourne to respond "no, that sort of thing is apt to come later."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199716_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199716-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melbourne reported Victoria responded "I shan't soon forgive you for that", rubbing his hands and chuckling over it while telling the story to Lord Clarendon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199716–17_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199716–17-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The morning after <a href="/wiki/Wedding_of_Queen_Victoria_and_Prince_Albert" title="Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert">her wedding</a>, Victoria wrote to Melbourne of her "most gratifying and bewildering night" with Albert, and how she never thought she "could be so loved."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199798_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeintraub199798-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 February 1841, Melbourne was admitted as a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">Fellow of the Royal Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following <a href="/wiki/August_1841_vote_of_no_confidence_against_the_government_of_the_Viscount_Melbourne" class="mw-redirect" title="August 1841 vote of no confidence against the government of the Viscount Melbourne">a vote of no confidence</a>, initiated by Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart-Wortley,_2nd_Baron_Wharncliffe" title="John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe">John Stuart-Wortley</a>, Melbourne's government fell, and he resigned as Prime Minister on 30 August 1841.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg/220px-ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg/330px-ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg/440px-ViscountMelbournePlaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>A plaque marking the burial of Melbourne at <a href="/wiki/St_Etheldreda%27s_Church,_Hatfield" title="St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield">St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield</a>, in Hertfordshire, England</figcaption></figure> <p>After Melbourne resigned permanently in August 1841, Victoria continued to write to him about political matters, but as it was deemed inappropriate after a time, their letters became cordial and non-political without issue.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeintraub1997131_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeintraub1997131-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 October 1842, in reflecting on a prior journal entry from 1839 in which she had described her "happiness" with Melbourne, Victoria wrote that she "looked over and corrected one of my old journals, which do not now awake very pleasant feelings. The life I led then was so artificial and superficial, and yet I thought I was happy. Thank God! I now know what real happiness means.”<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeintraub1997136_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeintraub1997136-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though weakened, Melbourne survived a stroke on 23 October 1842, 14 months after his departure from politics.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In retirement, he lived at <a href="/wiki/Brocket_Hall" title="Brocket Hall">Brocket Hall</a>, Hertfordshire. He died at home on 24 November 1848<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was buried nearby at <a href="/wiki/St_Etheldreda%27s_Church,_Hatfield" title="St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield">St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a memorial to him in <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon his death, his titles passed to his brother, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lamb,_3rd_Viscount_Melbourne" title="Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne">Frederick</a>, as his son, George Augustus Frederick (1807–1836), had predeceased him. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, the capital city of <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria, Australia">Victoria, Australia</a>, was named in his honour in March 1837. He was the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-City_of_Melbourne_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-City_of_Melbourne-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Melbourne" title="Mount Melbourne">Mount Melbourne</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Stratovolcano" title="Stratovolcano">stratovolcano</a> in <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>, was also named in his honour by the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">naval officer</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_explorers" title="List of explorers">explorer</a> <a href="/wiki/James_Clark_Ross" title="James Clark Ross">James Clark Ross</a>, in 1841.<sup id="cite_ref-Ross-2011_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ross-2011-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: In literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>'s poetical illustration <i>Lord Melbourne</i>, to a portrait by Thomas Lawrence, was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837. It is one of the few instances in which she allowed herself a political comment.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Harper_Lee" title="Harper Lee">Harper Lee</a>'s 1960 novel <i><a href="/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird" title="To Kill a Mockingbird">To Kill a Mockingbird</a></i>, the character Jack Finch tells a story about Lord Melbourne to the protagonist, Scout Finch.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon_(L._E._L.)_in_Fisher%27s_Drawing_Room_Scrap_Book,_1837/Lord_Melbourne" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/Lord Melbourne">Lord Melbourne, a poetical illustration by L. E. L.</a></b></div></div></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On screen, Lord Melbourne has been portrayed by several actors: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._B._Warner" title="H. B. Warner">H. B. Warner</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_the_Great" title="Victoria the Great">Victoria the Great</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Leister" title="Frederick Leister">Frederick Leister</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prime_Minister_(film)" title="The Prime Minister (film)">The Prime Minister</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Diehl" title="Karl Ludwig Diehl">Karl Ludwig Diehl</a> in the Austrian film <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_in_Dover_(1954_film)" title="Victoria in Dover (1954 film)">Victoria in Dover</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Aylmer" title="Felix Aylmer">Felix Aylmer</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Regina_(film)" title="Victoria Regina (film)">Victoria Regina</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Finch" title="Jon Finch">Jon Finch</a> in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Caroline_Lamb_(film)" title="Lady Caroline Lamb (film)">Lady Caroline Lamb</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_O%27Conor" title="Joseph O'Conor">Joseph O'Conor</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Seventh" title="Edward the Seventh">Edward the Seventh</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Hawthorne" title="Nigel Hawthorne">Nigel Hawthorne</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_%26_Albert_(TV_serial)" title="Victoria & Albert (TV serial)">Victoria & Albert</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Bettany" title="Paul Bettany">Paul Bettany</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Victoria" title="The Young Victoria">The Young Victoria</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_Sewell" title="Rufus Sewell">Rufus Sewell</a> in the UK TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (UK TV series)">Victoria</a></i> (2016-2017).<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198205920" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198205920"><bdi>978-0198205920</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lord+Melbourne%2C+1779%E2%80%931848&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0198205920&rft.aulast=Mitchell&rft.aufirst=L.+G.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.questia.com%2FPM.qst%3Fa%3Do%26d%3D35623381&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="pp_311–30" class="citation journal cs1">Newbould, I. D. C. (December 1976). "William IV and the Dismissal of the Whigs, 1834". <i>Canadian Journal of History</i>. <b>11</b> (3): 311–330. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3138%2Fcjh.11.3.311">10.3138/cjh.11.3.311</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Canadian+Journal+of+History&rft.atitle=William+IV+and+the+Dismissal+of+the+Whigs%2C+1834&rft.volume=11&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=311-330&rft.date=1976-12&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3138%2Fcjh.11.3.311&rft.aulast=Newbould&rft.aufirst=I.+D.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="pp_229–241" class="citation journal cs1">Newbould, Ian D. C. (1980). "Whiggery and the Dilemma of Reform: Liberals, Radicals, and the Melbourne Administration, 1835-9". <i>Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research</i>. <b>53</b> (128): 229–241. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1468-2281.1980.tb01745.x">10.1111/j.1468-2281.1980.tb01745.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bulletin+of+the+Institute+of+Historical+Research&rft.atitle=Whiggery+and+the+Dilemma+of+Reform%3A+Liberals%2C+Radicals%2C+and+the+Melbourne+Administration%2C+1835-9&rft.volume=53&rft.issue=128&rft.pages=229-241&rft.date=1980&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1468-2281.1980.tb01745.x&rft.aulast=Newbould&rft.aufirst=Ian+D.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeintraub1997" class="citation book cs1">Weintraub, Stanley (1997). <i>Albert : uncrowned king</i>. London: John Murray. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7195-5756-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7195-5756-9"><bdi>0-7195-5756-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/36727394">36727394</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Albert+%3A+uncrowned+king&rft.place=London&rft.pub=John+Murray&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F36727394&rft.isbn=0-7195-5756-9&rft.aulast=Weintraub&rft.aufirst=Stanley&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeintraub1987" class="citation book cs1">Weintraub, Stanley (1987). <i>Victoria : biography of a queen</i>. London: Allen & Unwin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-04-923084-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-04-923084-2"><bdi>978-0-04-923084-2</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/15016119">15016119</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Victoria+%3A+biography+of+a+queen&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Allen+%26+Unwin&rft.date=1987&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F15016119&rft.isbn=978-0-04-923084-2&rft.aulast=Weintraub&rft.aufirst=Stanley&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZiegler1987" class="citation book cs1">Ziegler, Philip (1987). <i>Melbourne: A Life of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne</i>. London: HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-217957-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-217957-7"><bdi>978-0-00-217957-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Melbourne%3A+A+Life+of+William+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne&rft.place=London&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=978-0-00-217957-7&rft.aulast=Ziegler&rft.aufirst=Philip&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHilton2006" class="citation book cs1">Hilton, Boyd (2006). <i>A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846</i>. Oxford: Clarendon Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-921891-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-921891-2"><bdi>978-0-19-921891-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Mad%2C+Bad%2C+and+Dangerous+People%3F+England+1783%E2%80%931846&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Clarendon+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-19-921891-2&rft.aulast=Hilton&rft.aufirst=Boyd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="pp_83–102" class="citation journal cs1">Cameron, R. H. (1976). "The Melbourne Administration, the Liberals and the Crisis of 1841". <i>Durham University Journal</i>. <b>69</b> (1).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Durham+University+Journal&rft.atitle=The+Melbourne+Administration%2C+the+Liberals+and+the+Crisis+of+1841&rft.volume=69&rft.issue=1&rft.date=1976&rft.aulast=Cameron&rft.aufirst=R.+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCecil1954" class="citation journal cs1">Cecil, David (August 1954). "Melbourne and the Years of Reform". <i>History Today</i>. <b>4</b> (8): 529–536.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=History+Today&rft.atitle=Melbourne+and+the+Years+of+Reform&rft.volume=4&rft.issue=8&rft.pages=529-536&rft.date=1954-08&rft.aulast=Cecil&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collected_papers">Collected papers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Collected papers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLloyd_Charles_Sanders1889" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Charles_Sanders" title="Lloyd Charles Sanders">Lloyd Charles Sanders</a>, ed. (1889). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lordmelbournespa00melb"><i>Lord Melbourne's papers</i></a>. London: Longmans, Green, and Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lord+Melbourne%27s+papers&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Longmans%2C+Green%2C+and+Company&rft.date=1889&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flordmelbournespa00melb&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Lamb%2C+2nd+Viscount+Melbourne" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne">William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <i><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne">William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Hansard</a></i> 1803–2005: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-william-lamb">contributions in Parliament by William Lamb</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Melbourne,_William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount">"Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. 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rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Goulburn" title="Henry Goulburn">Henry Goulburn</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Secretary_for_Ireland" title="Chief Secretary for Ireland">Chief Secretary for Ireland</a> </b><br />1827–1828 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Egerton,_1st_Earl_of_Ellesmere" title="Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere">The Lord Francis Leveson-Gower</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Sir Robert Peel, Bt</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> </b><br />1830–1834 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Ponsonby,_4th_Earl_of_Bessborough" title="John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough">Viscount Duncannon</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="2">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/The_Earl_Grey" class="mw-redirect" title="The Earl Grey">The Earl Grey</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> </b><br />16 July 1834 – 14 November 1834 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Duke of Wellington">The Duke of Wellington</a><br />(caretaker, followed by)<br /><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Sir Robert Peel, Bt</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Leader of the House of Lords">Leader of the House of Lords</a> </b><br />1834 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Duke of Wellington">The Duke of Wellington</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Sir Robert Peel, Bt</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> </b><br />18 April 1835 – 30 August 1841 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Sir Robert Peel, Bt</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Duke of Wellington">The Duke of Wellington</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Leader of the House of Lords">Leader of the House of Lords</a> </b><br />1835–1841 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Duke of Wellington">The Duke of Wellington</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Lubbock,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet">John Lubbock</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Kinnaird,_8th_Lord_Kinnaird&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird (page does not exist)">Charles Kinnaird</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Leominster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)">Leominster</a> </b><br />1806 <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Lubbock,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet">John Lubbock</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Lubbock,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet">John Lubbock</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bonham_(politician)" title="Henry Bonham (politician)">Henry Bonham</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Erskine_(lawyer)" title="Henry Erskine (lawyer)">Henry Erskine</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Haddington_Burghs" class="mw-redirect" title="Haddington Burghs">Haddington Burghs</a> </b><br />1806-1807 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Warrender,_4th_Baronet" title="Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet">Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Oswald_Mosley,_2nd_Baronet,_of_Ancoats" title="Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats">Sir Oswald Mosley</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)">Portarlington</a> </b><br /><a href="/wiki/1807_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1807 United Kingdom general election">1807</a>–<a href="/wiki/1812_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1812 United Kingdom general election">1812</a> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Shakespeare_(MP)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Shakespeare (MP) (page does not exist)">Arthur Shakespeare</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Elliot_(Irish_politician)" title="William Elliot (Irish politician)">William Elliot</a><br /><a href="/wiki/George_Ponsonby" title="George Ponsonby">George Ponsonby</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Peterborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Peterborough</a> </b><br />1816–1819 <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/William_Elliot_(Irish_politician)" title="William Elliot (Irish politician)">William Elliot</a> 1816–1819<br /><a href="/wiki/James_Scarlett,_1st_Baron_Abinger" title="James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger">Sir James Scarlett</a> 1819 </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/James_Scarlett,_1st_Baron_Abinger" title="James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger">Sir James Scarlett</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Heron,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet">Sir Robert Heron, Bt</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brand,_20th_Baron_Dacre" title="Thomas Brand, 20th Baron Dacre">Thomas Brand</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_John_Saunders_Sebright,_7th_Baronet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sir John Saunders Sebright, 7th Baronet (page does not exist)">Sir John Saunders Sebright</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hertfordshire (UK Parliament 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Canning</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_John_Scott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Henry John Scott (page does not exist)">William Henry John Scott</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Newport_(Isle_of_Wight)_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newport (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)">Newport (Isle of Wight)</a> </b><br />1827 <br />With: <b> <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_John_Scott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Henry John Scott (page does not exist)">William Henry John Scott</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Henry_John_Scott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Henry John Scott (page does not exist)">William Henry John Scott</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Perceval_(1795-1859)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spencer Perceval (1795-1859)">Spencer Perceval</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Russell_(1798%E2%80%931850)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Russell (1798–1850)">William Russell</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Tennyson_d%27Eyncourt" title="Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt">Charles Tennyson</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Bletchingley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bletchingley (UK Parliament constituency)">Bletchingley</a> </b><br />1827–1828 <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Tennyson_d%27Eyncourt" title="Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt">Charles Tennyson</a> </b> 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Grenville</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">Rockingham</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt,_1st_Earl_of_Chatham" title="William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham">Chatham (Pitt the Elder)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Augustus_FitzRoy,_3rd_Duke_of_Grafton" title="Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton">Grafton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">Rockingham</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Petty,_2nd_Earl_of_Shelburne" title="William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne">Shelburne</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland" title="William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland">Portland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">Pitt the Younger</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">Pitt the Younger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Addington" title="Henry Addington">Addington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">Pitt the Younger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Grenville,_1st_Baron_Grenville" title="William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville">Lord Grenville</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland" title="William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland">Portland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Perceval" title="Spencer Perceval">Perceval</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Liverpool</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">Canning</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/F._J._Robinson,_1st_Viscount_Goderich" title="F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich">Goderich</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Grey</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melbourne</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melbourne</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Derby</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen" title="George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Derby</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Derby</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli (Beaconsfield)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">Gladstone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Primrose,_5th_Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery">Rosebery</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Balfour" title="Arthur Balfour">Balfour</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Campbell-Bannerman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. 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Carson">Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">Asquith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Maclean_(British_politician)" title="Donald Maclean (British politician)">Maclean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">Asquith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Henderson" title="Arthur Henderson">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Lansbury" title="George Lansbury">Lansbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Attlee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hastings_Lees-Smith" title="Hastings Lees-Smith">Lees-Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Pethick-Lawrence,_1st_Baron_Pethick-Lawrence" title="Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence">Pethick-Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Greenwood" title="Arthur Greenwood">Greenwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Attlee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Churchill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Attlee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Morrison" title="Herbert Morrison">Morrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Gaitskell" title="Hugh Gaitskell">Gaitskell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Brown,_Baron_George-Brown" title="George Brown, Baron George-Brown">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home">Douglas-Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath">Heath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Heath" title="Edward Heath">Heath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Thatcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">Callaghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Foot" title="Michael Foot">Foot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Kinnock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)" title="John Smith (Labour Party leader)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Beckett" title="Margaret Beckett">Beckett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">Major</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hague" title="William Hague">Hague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith" title="Iain Duncan Smith">Duncan Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Howard" title="Michael Howard">Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Miliband" title="Ed Miliband">Miliband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Harman" title="Harriet Harman">Harman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Jeremy Corbyn">Corbyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keir_Starmer" title="Keir Starmer">Starmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rishi_Sunak" title="Rishi Sunak">Sunak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch" title="Kemi Badenoch">Badenoch</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Grenville,_1st_Baron_Grenville" title="William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville">Grenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey" title="Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey">Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_3rd_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne">3rd Marquess of Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_3rd_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne">3rd Marquess of Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_3rd_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne">3rd Marquess of Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_3rd_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne">3rd Marquess of Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Derby (Stanley)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Derby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Harris,_3rd_Earl_of_Malmesbury" title="James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury">Malmesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cairns,_1st_Earl_Cairns" title="Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns">Cairns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gordon-Lennox,_6th_Duke_of_Richmond" title="Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Beaconsfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">3rd Marquess of Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">3rd Marquess of Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_2nd_Earl_Granville" title="Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville">Granville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wodehouse,_1st_Earl_of_Kimberley" title="John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley">Kimberley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">3rd Marquess of Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Primrose,_5th_Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery">Rosebery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wodehouse,_1st_Earl_of_Kimberley" title="John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley">Kimberley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Spencer,_5th_Earl_Spencer" title="John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer">Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Robinson,_1st_Marquess_of_Ripon" title="George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon">Ripon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_5th_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne">5th Marquess of Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Crewe-Milnes,_1st_Marquess_of_Crewe" title="Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe">Crewe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Curzon,_1st_Marquess_Curzon_of_Kedleston" title="George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston">Curzon of Kedleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Haldane,_1st_Viscount_Haldane" title="Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane">Haldane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Cripps,_1st_Baron_Parmoor" title="Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor">Parmoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Gascoyne-Cecil,_4th_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury">4th Marquess of Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg,_1st_Viscount_Hailsham" title="Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham">Hailsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Cripps,_1st_Baron_Parmoor" title="Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor">Parmoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Ponsonby,_1st_Baron_Ponsonby_of_Shulbrede" title="Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede">Ponsonby of Shulbrede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Snell,_1st_Baron_Snell" title="Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell">Snell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Addison,_1st_Viscount_Addison" title="Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison">Addison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_5th_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury">5th Marquess of Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Addison,_1st_Viscount_Addison" title="Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison">Addison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Jowitt,_1st_Earl_Jowitt" title="William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt">Jowitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._V._Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Hillsborough" title="A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough">Alexander of Hillsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Carington,_6th_Baron_Carrington" title="Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington">Carrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Shackleton,_Baron_Shackleton" title="Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton">Shackleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Carington,_6th_Baron_Carrington" title="Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington">Carrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Peart,_Baron_Peart" title="Fred Peart, Baron Peart">Peart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cledwyn_Hughes,_Baron_Cledwyn_of_Penrhos" title="Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos">Cledwyn of Penrhos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivor_Richard" title="Ivor Richard">Richard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_7th_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury">Cranborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Galbraith,_2nd_Baron_Strathclyde" title="Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde">Strathclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Royall,_Baroness_Royall_of_Blaisdon" title="Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon">Royall of Blaisdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Smith,_Baroness_Smith_of_Basildon" title="Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon">Smith of Basildon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_True,_Baron_True" title="Nicholas True, Baron True">True</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="23x15px&#124;border_&#124;alt=United_Kingdom&#124;link=United_Kingdom_Home_secretaries_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" 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title="Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney">Townshend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_North,_Lord_North" title="Frederick North, Lord North">North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Nugent-Temple-Grenville,_1st_Marquess_of_Buckingham" title="George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Townshend,_1st_Viscount_Sydney" title="Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney">Sydney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grenville,_1st_Baron_Grenville" title="William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville">Grenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Dundas,_1st_Viscount_Melville" title="Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville">Dundas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland" title="William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland">Portland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pelham,_2nd_Earl_of_Chichester" title="Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester">Pelham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Philip_Yorke" title="Charles Philip Yorke">Yorke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Hawkesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Spencer,_2nd_Earl_Spencer" title="George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer">Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool" title="Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool">Liverpool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ryder_(politician,_born_1766)" title="Richard Ryder (politician, born 1766)">Ryder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Addington" title="Henry Addington">Sidmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sturges_Bourne" title="William Sturges Bourne">Sturges Bourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Petty-Fitzmaurice,_3rd_Marquess_of_Lansdowne" title="Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne">Lansdowne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Peel</a></li> <li><a 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Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Grey,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet">Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Horatio_Walpole" title="Spencer Horatio Walpole">Walpole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._S._Sotheron-Estcourt" title="T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt">Sotheron-Estcourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Cornewall_Lewis" title="George Cornewall Lewis">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Grey,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet">Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Horatio_Walpole" title="Spencer Horatio Walpole">Walpole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gathorne_Gathorne-Hardy,_1st_Earl_of_Cranbrook" title="Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook">Hardy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bruce,_1st_Baron_Aberdare" title="Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare">Bruce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lowe" title="Robert Lowe">Lowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Cross,_1st_Viscount_Cross" title="R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross">Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Harcourt_(politician)" title="William Harcourt (politician)">Harcourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Cross,_1st_Viscount_Cross" title="R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross">Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Childers" title="Hugh Childers">Childers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Matthews,_1st_Viscount_Llandaff" title="Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff">Matthews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._H._Asquith" title="H. H. Asquith">Asquith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_White_Ridley,_1st_Viscount_Ridley" title="Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley">Ridley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Ritchie,_1st_Baron_Ritchie_of_Dundee" title="Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee">Ritchie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretas_Akers-Douglas,_1st_Viscount_Chilston" title="Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston">Akers-Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Gladstone,_1st_Viscount_Gladstone" title="Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone">Gladstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Churchill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_McKenna" title="Reginald McKenna">McKenna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Samuel" title="Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel">Samuel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Cave,_1st_Viscount_Cave" title="George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave">Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Shortt" title="Edward Shortt">Shortt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Bridgeman,_1st_Viscount_Bridgeman" title="William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman">Bridgeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Henderson" title="Arthur Henderson">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Joynson-Hicks,_1st_Viscount_Brentford" title="William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford">Joynson-Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Clynes" title="J. R. Clynes">Clynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Samuel" title="Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel">Samuel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Gilmour,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet">Gilmour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hoare,_1st_Viscount_Templewood" title="Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood">Hoare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Anderson,_1st_Viscount_Waverley" title="John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Morrison" title="Herbert Morrison">Morrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Somervell,_Baron_Somervell_of_Harrow" title="Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow">Somervell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Chuter_Ede" title="James Chuter Ede">Chuter Ede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Maxwell_Fyfe,_1st_Earl_of_Kilmuir" title="David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir">Maxwell-Fyfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwilym_Lloyd_George" title="Gwilym Lloyd George">Lloyd George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rab_Butler" title="Rab Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brooke,_Baron_Brooke_of_Cumnor" title="Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor">Brooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Soskice" title="Frank Soskice">Soskice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">Callaghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Maudling" title="Reginald Maudling">Maudling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Carr" title="Robert Carr">Carr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merlyn_Rees" title="Merlyn Rees">Rees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Whitelaw" title="William Whitelaw">Whitelaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Brittan" title="Leon Brittan">Brittan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hurd" title="Douglas Hurd">Hurd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Waddington" title="David Waddington">Waddington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Baker,_Baron_Baker_of_Dorking" title="Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking">Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke" title="Kenneth Clarke">K. 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