“. . . Melbourne writes that his conversation with the King was a very long one, and that his mind was
quite made up that the Government, such as it was reduced to, could never
stand. . . .”
William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)
English statesman, the son of Lady Melbourne (possibly by the third earl of Egremont) and
husband of Lady Caroline Lamb; he was a Whig MP, prime minister (1834-41), and counsellor
to Queen Victoria.
