Background
The youngest son of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his wife Elizabeth, and the brother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated Master of Arts in 1805.
Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
Career
The Lambs had no children and it was speculated that the marriage was never consummated. He served in Earl Grey"s administration as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1830 until his death. His comic opera Whistle for it was produced in 1807, and his adaptations of Timon of Athens in 1816.
His most important work, a translation of the poems of Catullus, was published in 1821.
Membership
6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament.
10th United Kingdom Parliament. 11th United Kingdom Parliament]
He became a barrister at Lincoln"s Inn, and was Member of Parliament for Westminster from March 1819 to March 1820, and for Dungarvan from 1822 until his death.