George Lamb (politician and writer)
George Lamb (11 July 1784 – 2 January 1834) was a British politician and writer.
The youngest son of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his wife Elizabeth, and the brother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1805.[1]
On 17 May 1809, he married Caroline Rosalie Adelaide St. Jules, the illegitimate daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, by his mistress (and eventual second wife) Lady Elizabeth Foster. The Lambs had no children and it was speculated that the marriage was never consummated.
He became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, and was Member of Parliament for Westminster from March 1819 to March 1820, and for Dungarvan from 1822 until his death. He served in Earl Grey's administration as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1830 until his death.
His comic opera Whistle for it was produced in 1807, and his adaptations of Timon of Athens in 1816. His most important work, a translation of the poems of Catullus, was published in 1821.
References
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- Concise Dictionary of National Biography, 1932
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
External links
- Works by or about George Lamb in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Archival material relating to George Lamb listed at the UK National Archives
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Lamb
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Westminster 1819–1820 With: Francis Burdett |
Succeeded by Francis Burdett John Cam Hobhouse |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Dungarvan 1820–1834 |
Succeeded by Ebenezer Jacob |
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