William Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton daughter who died in infancy. Frances, Viscountess Chewton was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and received the Order of Victoria and Albert, 3rd class. She died 11 April 1902, at Bookham lodge, Cobham, Surrey, in her 80th year, of pneumonia. William Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton William Frederick Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton (29 June 1816 in Cardington, Bedfordshire – 8 October 1854) was a British army officer. Waldegrave was the eldest son of Hon. William Waldegrave and was educated at Cheam School. While still at school, he served as a midshipman aboard his father's ship, HMS "Seringapatam" from 1829–31 and
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne last time a British monarch attempted to appoint a government against a parliamentary majority. The next year, Melbourne was once again involved in a sex scandal. This time he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The husband demanded £1,400, and when he was turned down he accused Melbourne of having an affair with his wife. At this time such a scandal would be enough to derail a major politician, so it is a measure of the respect contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not