Editing Lady Caroline Lamb (section)

==Family background==
Lamb was the only daughter of [[Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough]], an [[Anglo-Irish]] peer, and [[Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough|Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough]]. She was known as the '''Honourable Caroline Ponsonby''' until her father succeeded to the earldom in 1793. While her brother, [[Frederick Ponsonby (British Army officer)|Frederick Ponsonby]], was severely injured in the [[Battle of Waterloo]], in the days after the battle, she had an affair with the [[Duke of Wellington]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglass |first1=Paul |title=Lady Caroline Lamb |date=2004 |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |location=New York |isbn=1-4039-6605-2 |pages=172–173 }}</ref> She was related to other leading society ladies and was the niece of [[Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire]], and cousin (by marriage) of [[Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron|Annabella, Lady Byron]]. She was related to Sarah Ponsonby, one half of the [[Ladies of Llangollen]], and [[Diana, Princess of Wales]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dickson |first=Leigh Wetherall |url=https://shura.shu.ac.uk/20520/1/10701167.pdf |title=Beyond Byron, Legitimising Lamb: The Cultural Contexts of Caroline Lamb's Life and Works |publisher=Sheffield Hallan University |date=September 2006 |type=PhD thesis}}</ref>

She was never Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage.