Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn Cowper was born in 1820, the youngest daughter of Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, a daughter of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. Her paternity was officially attributed to Lady Cowper's husband, the 5th Earl Cowper. However, the historian K.D. Reynolds and others have argued that Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston was actually the father of Lady Frances and her brother William. Once widowed, her mother married Palmerston, though Lady Frances did not care for him. He became Prime Minister in 1859. In 1838, Lady Frances served as a maid of honour at the Coronation of Queen Victoria, and she also
William F. Lamb also designed 521 Fifth Avenue, the Forbes Magazine Building, the Standard Oil Building, the Bankers Trust Building and worked with H. Craig Severance on 40 Wall Street in New York. He also designed the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina He died in New York on September 8, 1952. William F. Lamb William Frederick Lamb (November 21, 1893 – September 8, 1952), was an American architect, chiefly known as one of the principal designers of the Empire State Building. Lamb joined the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings in 1911, shortly after returning from Paris, where he earned a