Sir Matthew Lamb, first baronet

(1705-1768)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Lamb Sir Matthew (1705-1768) 1st Baronet MP LBT ID: MaLamb1768	B/BAP: 1705 DIED: 1768-11-06
SOURCES: John Talbot Coke, Coke of Trusley (1880) 72; thePeerage.com; leighrayment.com
Of Brockett Hall, the son of Matthew Lamb and father of Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne; he was created baronet in 1755. He was MP for Stockbridge (1741-1747) and Peterborough (1747-1768)
REFERENCES TO Sir Matthew Lamb, first baronet: James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 22 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD.,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) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 9