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Viscount Melbourne
Viscount Melbourne was a title created for Peniston Lamb in 1781 in the peerage of Ireland. He had already been made a baron in 1770 and in 1815 he was made an English peer.
- Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne[?] (1748-1829); Son of Sir Matthew Lamb[?].
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848); Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne[?] (1782-1853); brother of William Lamb and diplomat.
The title became extinct on the death of the 3rd Viscount.
- MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, 2ND VISCOUNT (1779-1848), 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica; [1] (http://7.1911encyclopedia.org/M/ME/MELBOURNE_WILLIAM_LAMB.htm)
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