MELBOURNE

Frederick James Lamb , 3 Viscount (3 son of 1 viscount Melbourne 1745–1828). b. Melbourne house, Piccadilly, London 17 April 1782; ed. at Eton, Glasgow univ. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1803; sec. of legation at Palermo 1811; envoy to Munich 12 Sep. 1815 to 6 March 1820; P.C. 28 March 1822; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Spain 18 Feb. 1825 to 28 Dec. 1827; amba ador to Lisbon 28 Dec. 1827 to May 1831; amba ador to Vienna 13 May 1831 to 16 Oct. 1841 when granted pension of £1700; created baron Beauvale of Beauvale, co. Nottingham 20 April 1839; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 24 Nov. 1848; G.C.B. 13 Dec. 1827. d. Brockett hall, Herts. 29 Jany. 1853. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 28, portrait ; G.M. xxxix 309, 338 (1853); Greville’s Journal , vol. i pt. 3 pp. 35–7 (1874).