Viscount Melbourne

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Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, was a title created for Peniston Lamb, 1st Baron Melbourne in 1781 in the Peerage of Ireland. He had previously been created Lord Melbourne, Baron of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1770, and was further created Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne in the County of Derby, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1815. The 2nd Viscount was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, while his brother, the 3rd Viscount, was a diplomat who was created Baron Beauvale, of Beauvale in the County of Nottingham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1839, before succeeding to the Viscountcy. All the titles became extinct on the death of the 3rd Viscount.

[edit] Viscounts Melbourne (1781)

• Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1748-1829)
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)
• Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne (1782-1853)

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.