Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, styled The Honourable Emily Lamb from 1787 to 1805 and Countess Cowper from 1805 to 1839, was a leading figure of the Almack's social set, sister of Prime Ministe
Portrait of Lady Emily Lamb, aged 16, by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper by William Owen, ca. 1810
Lord Cowper
Lady Palmerston in 1860
Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, known as Sir Peniston Lamb, 2nd Baronet, from 1768 to 1770, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1793. He was the father of Prim
Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
…Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, wife of the 5th Earl Cowper, and subsequently wife of another Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston. Emily was born in 1787 to Peniston Lamb and his wife, Elizabeth (née Milbanke). Due to her mother's numerous love affairs, her true paternity was never verified, and has been described as…
Detail from The Milbanke and Melbourne Families by George Stubbs, 1769
Lady Melbourne with her eldest son
Portrait of Lord Melbourne by John Partridge.