Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne was one of the most influential of the political hostesses of the extended Regency period, and the wife of Whig politician Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne.
Portrait by George Romney
Portrait of Sir Ralph Milbanke by James Northcote, 1784
The Milbanke and Melbourne Families by George Stubbs, 1769
Lady Melbourne with the Duchess of Devonshire and Anne Damer in Witches Round the Cauldron by Daniel Gardner (1775)
Lady Caroline Lamb
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Lady Caroline Lamb was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to k
Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne
…for discretion in her affairs: she famously remarked that no man was safe with another's secrets and no woman with her own. Unlike her daughter-in-law, Lady Caroline Lamb, who conducted a very public extramarital affair with Lord Byron, Lady Melbourne had a clear understanding of what society would and would not condone…
Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1805
Lady Caroline's mother, Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough, by Angelica Kauffman in 1793
Portrait of Lord Melbourne by Thomas Lawrence, 1805.
Lady Caroline Lamb, née Ponsonby by John Hoppner