Brocket Hall early held variously of Hatfield Manor and the Bishop of Ely. Sir Matthew Lamb's son was Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne and he was often visited at Brocket Hall by the Prince Regent, who had a liaison with Lady Melbourne. The next owner was William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister from 1835–41, when she regularly visited. His wife, Lady Caroline, infamously had an affair with Lord Byron causing Lord Melbourne much embarrassment. For one of his birthdays she held a state banquet in the Saloon, at which she had herself served from a large
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