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  WILLIAM LAMB MELBOURNE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM LAMB MELBOURNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After completing his course at Trinity College, Cambridge, William Lamb studied law at the university of Glasgow, and was called to the bar in 1804.
Lady Caroline Lamb acquired some fame as a novelist by her romance of Glenarvon, which was published anonymously in 1816 and was afterwards (1865) re-issued under the title of The Fatal Passion.
William Lamb (as Lord Melbourne then was) joined the opposition under Fox, of whom he was an ardent admirer; but his Liberal tendencies were never decided, and he not infrequently supported Lord Liverpool during that statesman's long tenure of office.
7.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MELBOURNE_WILLIAM_LAMB.htm   (2462 words)

  
 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC (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) of Britain, and mentor of Queen Victoria.
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.
King William IV's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in November.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne   (852 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LAMB, WILLIAM ROBERT
William Robert Lamb, Texas Populist leader, was born on October 21, 1850, in McNair County, Tennessee, one of seven children of John Madison and Parmelia A. (Thomason) Lamb.
Lamb apparently was involved in another gin in Salona at about the same time, and in 1898 in Bowie with a third gin and mill and cooperative warehouse.
Lamb's leadership in founding the Populist party in Texas was recognized when he gaveled to order its founding convention in Dallas, the first in the South, on August 17, 1891.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fla62.html   (1154 words)

  
 William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779-1848
Lamb was an avid reader who developed his own interests in literature, drama, and religion.
However Lamb also had a conservative streak and never adapted to the radical wing of the Whig party which was evolving in the early nineteenth century and which stood for Church, educational, social, and parliamentary reform.
Lamb, who believed in an aristocratic oligarchy rather than democracy, was skeptical about man's ability to improve his condition through government action.
www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/melbourne.html   (2094 words)

  
 David Edward Lamb
In 1863 William W. Lamb married Miss Belle Henderson, who was born on a farm in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, in 1844, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fleming) Henderson, who were also natives of Pennsylvania.
Lamb was born on a farm in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1866, and her parents, Judge William and Nancy Irwin, were also natives of the same county.
Lamb have one child, Charles Irwin, who was born March 24, 1897, and finished his education in the College of Emporia.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/biol/lambde.html   (1011 words)

  
 William Lamb Memorial Studio
In 1932 Lamb was commissioned by the Duchess of York, a native of Angus, to model portrait heads of her daughters, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.
Throughout the next thirty-four years, the studio would be the centre of Lamb’s life, the place where he would put together the vast range of etchings, drawings, watercolours and sculptures in clay, plaster, wood, stone and bronze.
William Lamb died in 1951 and it was his wish that the studio should be left as his memorial gift.
www.angusahead.com /web/site/AngusListings/TourismAttractions/WilliamLambMemorialStudioG7021.asp   (380 words)

  
 Angus Council | Local History | People of Angus | William Lamb
William Lamb was born in a small cottage in Mill Street, Montrose on the 1st June 1893.
Through Cathro, Lamb became involved with a group of young artists and literati who believed in the idea of a Scottish Renaissance in life and the arts.
William Lamb was a man who gave all to his art.
www.angus.gov.uk /history/features/people/Lamb1.htm   (809 words)

  
 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - William Lamb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lamb had an eleven year political career which began in 1830.
Following the first Peel ministry (1834-35) Lamb's second government is remembered for his support of parliamentary reform and his being accused of seducing Caroline Norton causing him to lose favour with the king, William IV.
Lamb was an advisor to the young Queen Victoria.
www.britannia.com /gov/primes/prime27.html   (297 words)

  
 Mary and Charles Lamb - their web biographies
Lamb himself, at the time we speak of, being a mere clerk, and unable to afford them much assistance, the weight of their maintenance fell upon his sister, the well-known Mary Lamb.
Mary Lamb would have been in the ordinary course transferred to a public lunatic asylum, but interest was made with the authorities, and she was given into the custody of her brother, then only just of age, who undertook to be her guardian, an office which he discharged...
Lamb, thus, in his twenty-third year, had "the whole weight of the family" thrown on him - a father in his second childhood, a dying aunt and a sister whose returning reason was liable to fail again at any moment.
www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/ylamb.htm   (11811 words)

  
 Leica Forum: The whereabouts of William Lamb's Rover
Commenting on that shot was my friend, William Lamb, the fine fellow who artfully documented the Morgans, noting that he hadn't had a chance to take any Leica images of his Rover.
Lamb yourself to reveal how it is that I've had the chance to snap a pic on my D2 of his beloved when he has had to make do with excuses.
William - I'll trade you a maxxum 5 with a 50mm f1.4, 24-85, 70-210 and IR remote for the de rosa...
www.leica-camera.com /discus_e/messages/11/85875.html   (1202 words)

  
 Dickinson County, Part 9
The first brick stores in town were erected in 1878 by C. Hoffman and G. Lamb, on the east side of Factory street, and these were followed in 1880 by C. Staatz, J. Buhrer and A. Logback, who erected similar buildings on the west side of the street.
WILLIAM LAMB, retired, born in Randolph County, N. C., December 28, 1806.
He was educated in his native country, after which he engaged in the mercantile trade until 1870, when he came to America and settled in Dickinson County, Kan., where he turned his attention to farming and milling for quite a while, when he engaged as traveling salesman for three years.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/dickinson/dickinson-co-p9.html   (2981 words)

  
 William Hallmark - Behold the Lamb - Christ-Centered Art
The innocence and purity of the lamb surrounded by the harshness of the crown of thorns portrays yet another facet of Jesus' character - His submissiveness to the Father's will.
What lessons for each of us as we journey through life, keep your eyes on the Father and be obedient.
Behold the Lamb copyright © by William Hallmark.
www.christcenteredmall.com /stores/art/hallmark/behold-the-lamb.htm   (249 words)

  
 Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
William Lamb, the future Lord Melbourne, was born on March 15, 1779, in London.
An essayist, critic, and poet, Lamb was also a brave and tender man. Despite a life full of tragedy, his writings were often filled with humor.
William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275776?tocId=9275776   (814 words)

  
 Lord Byron's Lovers: Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Ponsonby Lamb was the daughter of the earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, and the niece of the duchess of Devonshire.
Her husband was William Lamb, the younger son of Byron's friends, Lord and Lady Melbourne.
Caroline and William had married when she was 17 and the union began happily enough.
englishhistory.net /byron/lclamb.html   (3533 words)

  
 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (March 15, 1779-November 24, 1848) was home secretary (1830-1834) and prime minister (1834 and 1835-1841) of United KingdomBritain, and mentor of Victoria of the United KingdomQueen Victoria/.
Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family and educated at Eton CollegeEton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron ByronLord Byron.
William IV of the United KingdomKing William IV's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in November.
www.infothis.com /find/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne   (827 words)

  
 William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt, the son of an Irish Unitarian clergyman, was born in Maidstone, Kent, on 10th April, 1778.
At the age of fifteen William was sent to be trained for the ministry at New Unitarian College at Hackney in London.
William Hazlitt died in poverty of stomach cancer on 18th September 1830.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRhazlitt.htm   (2110 words)

  
 Lamb, William on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dresser, Inc. CEO Patrick M. Murray to Retire; Steven G. Lamb to Be Appointed CEO; The Company Announces Date of Transition.
WILLIAM SITWELL IS THE Food Spy; Restaurant bites.
Publication: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Author: GEORGINA GUSTIN, AND WILLIAM LAMB Of the Post-Dispatch Valerie Schremp Hahn of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-L1amb-W1il.asp   (374 words)

  
 Fort Fisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Until the arrival of Colonel William Lamb in July, 1862.
Under Colonel Lamb's direction and design, which was greatly influenced by the Malakoff Tower (a Crimean War fortification) in Sevastopol, Russia, expansion of the fortress began.
Colonel lamb recognized the importance of Fort Fisher to the defense system of the Cape Fear, to the security of Wilmington, and to the actual survival of the entire Confederacy.
www.ego.net /us/nc/ilm/tts/ftfisher.htm   (581 words)

  
 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Lord Melbourne, Baron of Kilmore, Baron Melbourne of Melbourne (March 15, 1779-November 24, 1848) was home secretary (1830-1834) and prime minister (1834 and 1835-1841) of Britain, and mentor of Queen Victoria.
Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family and educated at Eton and Cambridge University, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
Although he was unsuccessful in this, when Grey resigned (July 1834), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/w/wi/william_lamb__2nd_viscount_melbourne.html   (1254 words)

  
 Melbourne, William Lamb, 2d Viscount on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was at her request that he returned to office (1839) after Sir Robert Peel resigned over a disagreement with the queen.
Melbourne's wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, 1785-1828, was clever and beautiful, but also eccentric, impulsive, and indiscreet.
She is remembered less for the minor novels that she wrote than for her love affair with Lord Byron.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MelbrnW1L1.asp   (310 words)

  
 Hope College: Hope College: Joint Archives of Holland: William "Bill" Lamb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bill Lamb served in the armed forces as an Army pilot before joining his father in his Holland-area construction business in 1947.
Lamb became actively involved in community affairs and was a member of the Maplewood School Board, an elder at Hope Reformed Church, and on the board of directors of the Michigan Road Builders Association.
In 1967, Lamb was elected as councilman of the Second Ward and in 1971 was elected as Holland's mayor.
www.hope.edu /jointarchives/collections/registers/hope/lambbill.html   (186 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Melbourne, William Lamb, 2d Viscount (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2d Viscount[mel´ burn] Pronunciation Key, 1779–1848, British statesman.
He entered Parliament as a Whig in 1805, was (1827–28) chief secretary for Ireland, and entered (1828) the House of Lords on the death of his father.
Melbourne's wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, 1785–1828, was clever and beautiful, but also eccentric, impulsive, and indiscreet.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MelbrnWL.html   (438 words)

  
 William Blake, "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" - Hypertext Reader - Romantic Circles High School - Romantic Circles
William Blake, "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" - Hypertext Reader - Romantic Circles High School - Romantic Circles
The links to the plates will take you to The William Blake Archive at the University of Virginia.
If you have an earlier version of either of these browsers or you are having trouble accessing the images, please click on the link to the "non-Java version" instead.
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 William Lamb Picknell - ADELSON GALLERIES, Inc
Washington, D.C., Taggart and Jorgensen Gallery, "William Lamb Picknell 1853-1897," November 7-December 7, 1991, p.
William Lamb Picknell was born in 1853 in Vermont and, as a young man, went to Italy to study under George Inness in Rome.
After two years, Picknell enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and subsequently moved to Pont-Aven, a seacoast village in Brittany where an international group of artists had already established an art colony.
www.adelsongalleries.com /AmerImp/Pages/pickfrom.htm   (313 words)

  
 The Pelican File - Reporter - William Lamb
William Lamb and Philip Dine in the St.
Alan Keyes stepped onto the stage at Son Life Church in Collinsville last month to outline for a crowd of about 300 supporters the unabashedly spiritual philosophy that he expects to ride to a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Kevin McDermott and William Lamb in the St.
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 William Shakespeare Lamb, Charles and Mary. Charles: 1775—1834, Essayist and Literary Critic. MARY: 1764—1847, Writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Lamb was an English essayist and literary critic whose best known works were the essays he published under the pseudonym* Elia and the Tales from Shakespeare he wrote with his sister, Mary.
Lamb left school at the age of 15 to become a clerk with the East India Company, the most prominent English trading house of the time.
His passion for literature brought him in contact with some of the most celebrated literary figures of the day.
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 [minstrels] The Lamb -- William Blake
Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb.
I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by His name.
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