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After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, William IV was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government. Melbourne, who was the man most likely to be both acceptable to the King and to hold the Whig Party together, hesitated after receiving from Grey a letter from the ...
The 1841 votes of no confidence against the government of Viscount Melbourne were votes of no confidence in the government of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne which occurred on 7 June 1841. [1] Melbourne lost the vote by only one vote and dissolved Parliament leading to an election in July 1841. Melbourne lost a second vote of confidence ...
The second vote of no confidence in the government of Lord Melbourne occurred in August 1841. Queen Victoria had opened the new Parliament on 24 August. On the same day, Conservative MP John Stuart-Wortley proposed in the House of Commons an amendment to the House's address in answer to the Queen's Speech , which claimed that the government no ...
Melbourne ministry may refer to: First Melbourne ministry , the British government led by Lord Melbourne from July to November 1834 Second Melbourne ministry , the British government led by Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1841
In 1815, he was made Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne in the County of Derby, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] He was succeeded by his son, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , who was a noted Whig politician and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1834 and 1835–1841.
Graham lost his place at the Treasury board when the Melbourne government fell in November and did not return to political office. In 1843, he inherited the estate of Balgowan from his second cousin, Lord Lynedoch ; he sold it in 1844. [ 1 ]
Peel said he was willing to become prime minister provided the Queen replaced her Whig ladies-in-waiting with Tory ones. She refused and re-appointed Lord Melbourne, a decision criticised as unconstitutional. [2] Britain sent Lord Durham to resolve the issue and his 1839 report opened the way for "responsible government" (that is, self-government).
The first wholly Whig government since 1783 came to power after the Duke of Wellington's Tory government lost a vote of no confidence on 15 November 1830. The government, led by the Earl Grey, passed the Great Reform Act in 1832, which brought about parliamentary reform, and enacted the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, bringing about the abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire.