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What was Lord Melbourne’s family like?

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Lord Melbourne was born William Lamb, allegedly the second of six children of the 1st Viscount Melbourne and his wife. Lamb married Lady Caroline Ponsonby (1805), who gave birth to their only surviving child, George Augustus Frederick, in 1807. The couple separated in 1825, years after Lady Caroline’s public affair with poet Lord Byron.