William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria in the ways of politics, when she was between the ages of 18 and 21. Historians have concluded that Melbourne does not rank highly as a Prime Minister, for there were no great foreign wars or domestic issues to handle, he lacked major achievements, and he enunciated no grand principles. "But he was
William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1650 or 16533 August 1692), was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier. Stewart was born in 1653 or around 1650, the son of Sir Alexander Stewart, 2nd Baronet, of Ramelton. His family was from Donegal, Ulster Scots, and Protestant. He was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance and colonel of a regiment of foot. In 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Mountjoy and Baron Stewart. In 1686 he served in Hungary at the siege of Buda, where he was twice dangerously wounded, and on his return to