Elizabeth Lamb, viscountess Melbourne [née Milbanke]

(1751-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Melbourne, Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess, 1752-1818 NRA: Lamb Elizabeth (c 1752-1818) nee Hedworth Political Hostess and Agriculturalist wife of 1st Viscount Melbourne DNB: Lamb [née Milbanke], Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne (bap. 1751, d. 1818), political hostess and agricultural improver LBT ID: LyMelbo1 VIAF ID: 17386609 LOC ID: n50017550	B/BAP: 1751-10-15 DIED: 1818-04-06
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Whig hostess married to Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne (1744-1828); she was the confidant of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, the mother of William Lamb (1779-1848), and mother-in-law of Lady Caroline Lamb.
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Lamb, viscountess Melbourne [née Milbanke]: Duchess of Devonshire? to Lady Melbourne, 20 February 1802 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 The Prince Regent to Lady Melbourne, [November 1803] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 The Prince Regent to Lady Melbourne, 6 February 1805 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Duke of Richmond to Lady Melbourne, 2 April 1806 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 The Prince Regent to Lady Melbourne, 17 September 1811 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to William Bankes, 28 September 1812 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Melbourne, [15 October 1812] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 October 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to the Countess of Jersey, 5 October 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, 21 May 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Theresa Villiers to Lady Byron, 17 August 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 27 August 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 8 September 1816 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Augusta Leigh to Lady Byron, 17 [September 1816] in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 March 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 April 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to William Bankes, 20 November 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lady Byron to Lord Byron, 10 December 1820 in Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 28 September 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Samuel Rogers, 21 October 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's marriage and separation Found 1: ¶ 5 [Thomas Colley Grattan?], “Lord Byron and his Memoirs” in The Attic Miscellany 1 (October 1824) 26-37 Found 1: ¶ 12 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 18 August 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXIX Found 1: ¶ 8 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1812 Life of Byron: 1813 Found 9: ¶ 17 ¶ 4 ¶ 4 ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 10 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 9 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 3: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 1 Life of Byron: 1818 Life of Byron: 1819 Life of Byron: 1821 “Lord Byron” in Asiatic Journal NS 1 (February 1830) 145-55 Found 1: ¶ 76 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 58 “Lord Byron” in Monthly Review NS 13 (February 1830) 217-37 Found 3: ¶ 55 ¶ 56 ¶ 61 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 1: ¶ 104 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 81 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c.” in Literary Gazette (4 February 1832) 73-74 Found 1: ¶ 4 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. V.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (December 1832) 521-544 Found 1: ¶ 36 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XI: 1815-16 Ch. VI: 1827-28 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) II. Three Stages of Lord Byron’s Life Found 6: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 8 ¶ n1 III. Manfred Found 1: ¶ 18 V. Anne Isabella Byron Found 1: ¶ n1 VII. Informers and Defamers Found 1: ¶ 10 X. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (II) Found 1: ¶ n1 XI. Byron and Augusta Found 1: ¶ n1 Notes by the Editor Found 6: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 Appendix Found 4: ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 50 ¶ 93 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Introduction Found 1: ¶ 5 Forward Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 Chapter I. Found 18: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 ¶ 29 ¶ 32 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 ¶ 37 ¶ 38 ¶ 42 Chapter II. Found 5: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 15 Chapter III. Found 8: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 17 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 Chapter IV. Found 14: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 ¶ 26 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 ¶ 31 Chapter V. Found 8: ¶ 1 ¶ 1-3 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ 23 Chapter VI. Found 6: ¶ 7 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 29 ¶ 35 Chapter VII. Found 15: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 21 Chapter VIII. Found 20: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 21 ¶ 24 ¶ 30 ¶ 31 ¶ 34 ¶ 35 Chapter IX. Found 15: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 5 ¶ 13 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 ¶ 33 ¶ 35 ¶ 38 ¶ 47 ¶ 48 ¶ 53 ¶ 54 ¶ 55 ¶ 59