Melbourne as "Melburnians". The city was founded on 30 August 1835, in what was the British colony of New South Wales, by free settlers from the colony of Van Diemen’s Land. It was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837 and named in honour of the British Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847, after which it became the capital of the new colony of Victoria in 1851. In the wake of the 1850s Victorian gold rush, the city entered the "Marvellous Melbourne" boom period, transforming into one of the most
William Lamb (professor) Gaelic spelling reform as a subject specialist reviewer for the Scottish Qualifications Authority in 2011 and 2012. He was the PI for a Napier grant to develop an "On-Line Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagger and Gold-Standard corpus of Scottish Gaelic." He also helped develop the DASG (Stòras na Gàidhlig) corpus. He is currently working as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He is on the steering committee of Faclair na Gàidhlig since 2012 and the Scottish Gaelic Text Society since 2016. William Lamb (professor) Dr. William Lamb (sometimes called Will Lamb) is a linguist who was born in Baltimore and came