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William Frederick Lamb (21 de novembro de 1883 - 8 de setembro de 1952), foi um arquiteto norte-americano, conhecido principalmente como um dos principais designers do Empire State Building. [1] Biografia
William Frederick Lamb FAIA (November 21, 1883 – September 8, 1952), was an American architect, chiefly known as one of the principal designers of the Empire State Building. Biography. Lamb joined the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings in 1911, shortly after returning from Paris, where he earned a diploma at the École ...
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In 1779, William Lamb was born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, and was the son of Peniston and Elizabeth Lamb (1751–1818). However, his paternity was questioned, being attributed to George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, to whom it was considered he bore a considerable resemblance, and at whose residence he was a visitor until the Earl's d...
Member of Parliament
In 1816, Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the Glorious Revolution but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions". He, therefore, spoke against parliamentary reform, and voted for the suspension of habeas corpus in 1817 when seditionwas rife. Lamb's hallmark was finding the middle ground. Though a Whig, he accepted the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the...
Home Secretary
In November 1830, the Whigs came to power under Lord Grey. Melbourne was Home Secretary. During the disturbances of 1830–32 he "acted both vigorously and sensitively, and it was for this function that his reforming brethren thanked him heartily". In the aftermath of the Swing Riots of 1830–31, he countered the Tory magistrates' alarmismby refusing to resort to military force; instead, he advocated magistrates' usual powers be fully enforced, along with special constables and financial rewards...
Government
After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, William IV was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government. Melbourne, who was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and to hold the Whig Party together, hesitated after receiving from Grey a letter from the King requesting Melbourne to visit him to discuss the formation of a government. Melbourne feared he would not enjoy the extra work that accompanied the...
Blackmail
The next year, Melbourne was once again involved in a sex scandal. This time, he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, the society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The husband demanded £1,400, and when he was turned down, he accused Melbourne of having an affair with his wife. At that time, such a scandal would have been enough to derail a major politician and so it is a measure of the respect that contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's gov...
Queen Victoria
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, and her mother's adviser, Sir John Conroy. Over the next four years, Melbourne trained her in the art of politics, and the two became friends: Victoria was quoted as saying she considered him like a father (her own had died when she was eight months old), and Melbourne's son had died at a young age....
After Melbourne resigned permanently in August 1841, Victoria continued to write to him about political matters, but as it was deemed inappropriate after a time, their letters became cordial and non-political without issue.On 1 October 1842, in reflecting on a prior journal entry from 1839 in which she had described her "happiness" with Melbourne, ...
Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia, was named in his honour in March 1837. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdomat the time.Mount Melbourne, a stratovolcano in Antarctica, was also named in his honour by the British naval officer and explorer James Clark Ross, in 1841.Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration Lord Melbourne, to a portrait by Thomas Lawrence, was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837. It is one of the few instances in which she allowed herself a political comment.
Hilton, Boyd (2006). A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0199218912.Cameron, R. H. (1976). "The Melbourne Administration, the Liberals and the Crisis of 1841". Durham University Journal. 69(1).Cecil, David. "Melbourne and the Years of Reform." History Today(Aug 1954) 4#8 pp 529–536.Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Lamb"Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 90.Historica's Heritage Minute video docudrama "Responsible Government" (Adobe Flash Player)In full: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne of Kilmore, Lord Melbourne, Baron of Kilmore, Baron Melbourne of Melbourne. (Show more) Born: March 15, 1779, London, England. Died: November 24, 1848, Brocket, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire (aged 69) Title / Office: prime minister (1835-1841), United Kingdom.
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William Lamb may refer to: Bill Lamb (politician), member of the Alabama House of Representatives; William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; William Lamb (sculptor) (1893–1951), Scottish artist; William Lamb (Confederate States Army officer) (1835–1909) William Lamb alias Paniter ...
21 de jun. de 2021 · William Lamb, Lord Melbourne © Melbourne was a British statesman who was twice prime minister in the 1830s. William Lamb was born on 15 March 1779 in London, into an aristocratic Whig...
8 de jun. de 2018 · The English statesman William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), served as prime minister in 1834 and from 1835 to 1841. He was the stern suppressor of early trade unionism and the political mentor of the young Queen Victoria.
