Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne PC, GCB (17 April 1782-January 29, 1853), known as the Lord Beauvale from 1839 to 1848, was a British diplomat.
Lamb was a younger son of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his wife Elizabeth Milbanke, and the younger brother of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. He married Alexandrina Julia Theresa Wilhelmina Sophia Gräfin von Maltzan, daughter of Joachim Charles Leslie Mortimer Graf von Maltzan. [1]
He served as British Ambassador to Vienna ending in 1841. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and admitted to the Privy Council in 1822. In 1839 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Beauvale, of Beauvale in the County of Nottingham. In 1848 he succeeded his elder brother as third Viscount Melbourne.
Lord Melbourne died childless in January 1853, aged 70, and all his titles became extinct. The family seat of Melbourne Hall passed to his sister Emily.
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| Preceded by George Rose |
British Minister to Bavaria 1815–1820 |
Succeeded by Brook Taylor |
| Preceded by Sir William à Court |
British Ambassador to Portugal 1827–1831 |
Succeeded by Baron Howard de Walden |
| Preceded by Sir Henry Wellesley |
British Ambassador to Austria 1831–1841 |
Succeeded by Sir Robert Gordon |
| Peerage of Ireland | ||
| Preceded by William Lamb |
Viscount Melbourne 1848–1853 |
Extinct |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Beauvale 1839–1853 |
Extinct |
| Preceded by William Lamb |
Baron Melbourne 1848–1853 |
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