Emily Mary [Amelia] Lamb, 3d Viscountess Palmerston (1787–1805)
Emily Mary [Amelia] Cowper, 3d Viscountess Palmerston (1805–1839)
Emily Mary [Amelia] Temple, 3d Viscountess Palmerston (1839–1869)
1787–1869
Legally the child of Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne, but probably the daughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, third earl of Egremont. Married Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Cowper, fifth Earl Cowper (1778–1837), in 1805. Married Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, in 1839, and often entertained the political élite in her several homes. Inherited her family’s estates in Hertfordshire and Derbyshire in 1853.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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