Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, the Glossary
Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston (née Lamb, later Clavering-Cowper; 1787–1869), styled The Honourable Emily Lamb from 1787 to 1805 and Countess Cowper from 1805 to 1839, was a leading figure of the Almack's social set, sister of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, wife of the 5th Earl Cowper, and subsequently wife of another Prime Minister Lord Palmerston.[1]
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32 relations: Almack's, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Broadlands, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Catholic emancipation, Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington, Dorothea Lieven, Earl Cowper, Edward VII, Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury, Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper, George Lamb (politician), Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple, Gillian Gill, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Lady Caroline Lamb, Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria, Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, Sandringham House, Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, Thomas Lawrence, Tory, Whigs (British political party), William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne.
- 18th-century British women
- Cowper family
- Irish viscountesses
- Lamb family
- Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Almack's
Almack's was the name of a number of establishments and social clubs in London between the 18th and 20th centuries.
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (28 April 1801 – 1 October 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was a British Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer.
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Broadlands
Broadlands is a country house located in the civil parish of Romsey Extra, near the town of Romsey in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England.
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Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
Count Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (Charles-André Pozzo de Borgo, Карл Осипович Поццо ди Борго, Karl Osipovich Potso di Borgo; 8 March 1764 – 15 February 1842) was a Corsican politician, who later became a Russian diplomat.
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Catholic emancipation
Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the combined United Kingdom in the late 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.
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Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington
Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (1782 – 25 May 1829) was an Irish earl best known for his marriage to Margaret Farmer (née Power), whom he married at St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London, on 16 February 1818 (only four months after her first husband's death).
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Dorothea Lieven
Princess Katharina Alexandra Dorothea von Lieven (Дарья Христофоровна Ливен, tr.), née Freiin von Benckendorff, 17 December 1785 – 27 January 1857), was a Baltic German noblewoman and the wife of Prince Christoph Heinrich von Lieven, who served as the Russian ambassador to London between 1812 and 1834.
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Earl Cowper
Earl Cowper was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Earl Cowper are Cowper family.
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Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Edward VII are 19th-century British people.
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Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne
Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (née Milbanke; 1751 – 1818) was one of the most influential of the political hostesses of the extended Regency period, and the wife of Whig politician Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne are Irish viscountesses, Lamb family and women of the Regency era.
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Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury
Emily Caroline Catherine Frances Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury (6 November 1810 – 15 October 1872), formerly Lady Emily Cowper, was the wife of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and the mother of the 8th earl. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury are Cowper family.
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Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn
Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, VA (née Cowper; 9 February 1820 – 26 March 1880) was a British courtier and amateur photographer. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn are Cowper family.
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Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne
Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, (17 April 1782 – 29 January 1853), known as The Lord Beauvale from 1839 to 1848, was a British diplomat.
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George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper
George Augustus Frederick Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper (26 June 1806 – 15 April 1856), styled Viscount Fordwich until 1837, was a British Whig politician. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper are Cowper family.
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George Lamb (politician)
The Hon. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and George Lamb (politician) are Lamb family.
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Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple
Georgina Elizabeth Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple (née Tollemache; 1822 – 17 October 1901) was an English religious enthusiast, humanitarian, and animal welfare campaigner. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple are Cowper family.
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Gillian Gill
Gillian Catherine Gill (née Scobie, born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography.
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Lady Caroline Lamb are Lamb family and women of the Regency era.
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Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne
Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (29 January 1745 – 22 July 1828), known as Sir Peniston Lamb, 2nd Baronet, from 1768 to 1770, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1793.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn
Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn (20 February 1816 – 12 August 1854), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
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Sandringham House
Sandringham House is a country house in the parish of Sandringham, Norfolk, England.
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Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey
Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (4 March 1785 – 26 January 1867), born Lady Sarah Fane, was an English noblewoman and banker, and through her marriage a member of the Villiers family. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey are women of the Regency era.
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Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom
To date, forty-seven women and three men have been married to the British prime minister in office. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom are Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom.
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The Right Honourable
The Right Honourable (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey
Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, 3rd Baron Grantham, 6th Baron Lucas, KG, PC, FRS (born Robinson, later Weddell; 8 December 178114 November 1859), styled as The Hon. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey are 18th-century British people.
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Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.
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Tory
A Tory is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain.
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Whigs (British political party)
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
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William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple
William Francis Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple, PC (13 December 1811 – 16 October 1888), known as William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper") before 1869 and as William Cowper-Temple between 1869 and 1880, was a British Liberal statesman. Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston and William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple are Cowper family.
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Henry William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 177924 November 1848) was a British Whig politician who served as the Home Secretary and twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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See also
18th-century British women
- Amelia Osborne, Marchioness of Carmarthen
- Amelia Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh
- Anne Parsons
- Anne Townshend, Marchioness Townshend
- Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis
- Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
- Caroline of Ansbach
- Caroline of Brunswick
- Catherine Hamilton-Gordon, Countess of Aberdeen
- Charlotte Williams-Wynn (aristocrat)
- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charlotte, Princess Royal
- Deborah Churchill
- Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham
- Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
- Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
- Grace Sackville, Countess of Middlesex
- Isabella Molyneux, Countess of Sefton
- Lady Charles Bentinck
- Louisa Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool
- Louise of Great Britain
- Maria Branwell
- Mary Bertie, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven
- Mary Grey, Countess Grey
- Mary Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool
- Penelope Boothby
- Princess Amelia of Great Britain
- Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom
- Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom
- Princess Augusta of Great Britain
- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
- Princess Caroline of Great Britain
- Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817)
- Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain
- Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom
- Princess Louisa of Great Britain
- Princess Mary of Great Britain
- Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
- Princess Sophia of Gloucester
- Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom
- Shakespeare Ladies Club
- Sophia of Hanover
- Susan Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton
- Ursula Addington
Cowper family
- Baron Butler
- Baron Lucas
- Baron Mount Temple
- Earl Cowper
- Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury
- Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
- Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn
- Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
- George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
- George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper
- Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple
- Henry Cowper (died 1887)
- Lady Amabel Kerr
- Lord Dingwall
- Panshanger
- Sarah Cowper
- William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple
Irish viscountesses
- Agnes Wenman
- Alice Howard, 1st Countess of Wicklow
- Anne Conway (philosopher)
- Barbara Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge
- Brighid Nic Gearailt
- Caroline Agar-Ellis, Viscountess Clifden
- Charlotte Howe, Viscountess Howe
- Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden
- Dorothy Smith, Lady Pakington
- Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of Guilford
- Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon
- Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne
- Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond
- Ellis Bermingham, Countess of Brandon
- Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
- Fairlie Harmar
- Florence Wallace Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton
- Frances Darcy, Countess of Holderness
- Frances Scudamore, Viscountess Scudamore
- Frances Vane, Viscountess Vane
- Harriet Lowry-Corry, Viscountess Belmore
- Henrietta FitzJames
- Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison
- Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh
- Lady Strangford
- Margaret Howard, Countess of Nottingham
- Mary Stewart, Viscountess Mountjoy
- Theodosia Wingfield
- Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway
Lamb family
- Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne
- Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
- George Lamb (politician)
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Peniston Lamb (1770–1805)
- Robert Lamb (bishop)
- Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet
Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
- Akshata Murty
- Anne Chamberlain
- Anne Grenville, Baroness Grenville
- Audrey Callaghan
- Carrie Johnson
- Catherine Gladstone
- Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
- Charlotte Campbell-Bannerman
- Cherie Blair
- Clarissa Eden
- Clementine Churchill
- Denis Thatcher
- Elizabeth Douglas-Home
- Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston
- Emma Caroline Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby
- Frances Russell, Countess Russell
- Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury
- Hugh O'Leary
- Jane Perceval
- Joan Canning, 1st Viscountess Canning
- Julia Peel
- Lady Dorothy Macmillan
- Louisa Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool
- Lucy Baldwin
- Margaret Lloyd George
- Margot Asquith
- Marina Wheeler
- Mary Anne Disraeli
- Mary Grey, Countess Grey
- Mary Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool
- Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx
- Norma Major
- Philip May
- Samantha Cameron
- Sarah Jane Brown
- Sarah Robinson, Countess of Ripon
- Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom
- Ursula Addington
- Victoria Starmer
- Violet Attlee
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Temple,_Viscountess_Palmerston
Also known as Emily Lamb, Emily Lamb (Lady Cowper), Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, Emily Lamb, Lady Cowper, Emily Lamb, Viscontess Palmerston, Emily Lamb, Viscountess Palmerston, Emily Palmerston, Lady Cowper.