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'''William Lamb, [[Knight Fever|2nd Viscount Melbourne''', [[Knight Fever|PC, FRS]], was, as well as being a Prime Minister, a mentor to [[Queen Victoria]]. His time in office was noted for foreign policy events such as the Upper Canada rebellion (and, in response, the two Canadas[[Canada]]s being united under a single authority for the first time) and a joint international intervention against Muhammad Ali of Egypt to prevent his conquest of Syria (some Arabs are still bitter about that).

[[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|Spelled his name "Melburne"]], but nobody else even at the time did, so this seems to be a personal quirk. Also a [[Third Person Person]] in his letters to the Queen, but that was the standard protocol of the day for a minister writing to a monarch. Was regarded as something of a [[Disco Dan]] when (on the Queen's advice) he took to powdering his hair to hide signs of age, a fashion which was then several decades out of date.

== [[Viscount Melbourne]]{{examples|Appearances in fiction ==:}}

* He is depicted reasonably accurately in ''[[The Young Victoria]]'' (in which he is played by Paul Bettany) as a man who helped and advised the young princess and later monarch well and mostly to her best interests but who also used the closness of their relationship for his own political ends at the same time.