Rt Hon. Sir Earl Viscount Lord John Lambton PC GCB
(1792-1840)

High Commisioner, pupil (1798-1805), Member of Parliament (1812-1828), 1st Baron Durham (from 1828), Privy Counsellor (from 1830), Lord Privy Seal (1830-1833), 1st Earl of Durham (from 1833), 1st Viscount Lambton (from 1833), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (from 1837), and Governor-General of British North America (from 1838)

Died aged c. 48

John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, GCB, PC (12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840), also known as "Radical Jack" and commonly referred to in Canadian history texts simply as Lord Durham, was a British Whig statesman, colonial administrator, Governor General and high commissioner of British North America. A leading reformer, Durham played a major role in the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832. He later served as ambassador to Russia. He was a founding member and chairman of the New Zealand Company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand. George Woodcock says that he was, "Proud, wayward, immensely rich, with romantic good looks and an explosive temper." He was one of those "natural rebels who turn their rebellious energies to constructive purposes. Both at home and abroad he became a powerful exponent of the early nineteenth-century liberal spirit."

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John George Lambton 1st Earl of Durham High Commisioner & Governor-General of British North America 1838 whose famous report inspired all subsequent British colonial policy lived in this house 1798-1805 as a pupil of Dr. Beddoes.

3 Rodney Place, Bristol, United Kingdom where they lived