William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne fall. The king and the Duke of Wellington urged him to stay on as prime minister. After Norton failed in court, Melbourne was vindicated, but he did stop seeing Norton. Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, "it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic. Spanking sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the whippings administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity." Melbourne was Prime Minister when Queen Victoria came to the throne (June 1837). Barely eighteen, she was only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the Duchess of Kent,
Lamb baronets Lamb baronets There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Lamb, both in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Both creations are extinct. The Lamb Baronetcy, of Brocket Hall in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 17 January 1755. For more information on this creation, see Viscount Melbourne. The Burges, later Lamb Baronetcy, of Burghfield in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 21 October 1795 for the poet and politician James Burges. He married as his first wife Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Edward Noel,