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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830 1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835 1841), and was a mentor of Queen Victoria. The city of Melbourne in Australia was named after him.Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. In 1805 he succeeded his elder…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830 1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835 1841), and was a mentor of Queen Victoria. The city of Melbourne in Australia was named after him.Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. In 1805 he succeeded his elder brother as heir to his father's title and he married Lady Caroline Ponsonby. The next year he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster. For the election in 1806 he was moved to the seat of Haddington burghs and for the 1807 election successfully stood for Portarlington (a seat he held until 1812).