“Lady Caroline
Lamb presents her compliments to Mr
Godwin, and fears his politics will incline him to refuse her
request of his interest for Mr George
Lamb. She hopes, however, it will not offend if she solicits
it.”
William Godwin (1756-1836)
English novelist and political philosopher; author of An Inquiry
concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793) and Caleb
Williams (1794); in 1797 he married Mary Wollstonecraft.
Lady Caroline Lamb [née Ponsonby] (1785-1828)
Daughter of the third earl of Bessborough; she married the Hon. William Lamb (1779-1848)
and fictionalized her infatuation with Lord Byron in her first novel, Glenarvon (1816).
George Lamb (1784-1834)
Lawyer and Whig MP for Westminster (1819) and Dungarvan (1822-34), he was the son of
Elizabeth Lamb Viscountess Melbourne, possibly by the Prince of Wales. He was author of a
gothic drama, Whistle for It (1807) and served with Byron on the
management-committee of Drury Lane. His sister-in-law was Lady Caroline Lamb.
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