Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his deat
Palmerston in 1857
Temple (age 18) in 1802, by Thomas Heaphy
Statue of Lord Palmerston, Parliament Square, London, by Thomas Woolner
Statue of Palmerston in Southampton
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
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
…by Thomas Barnes, which did not play along with his propaganda ploys. In 1839, Palmerston married his paramour of many years, the noted Whig hostess Emily Lamb, widow of Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (1778–1837) and sister of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, prime…
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