Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 31 January 1929) was a

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, a

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(and later

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) politician, and the son of

George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham (George Frederick) D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham (5 September 1828 – 27 November 1879), styled Viscount Lambton from 1833 to 1840, was a British peer. Early life Lambton was born on 5 September 1828 at Copse Hill, Wimbledon and was baptis ...

. He inherited the Earldom from his twin brother,

John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928), known as Viscount Lambton until 1879, was a British peer. Durham was the eldest twin son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham, and his wife Lady Beatrix Frances, da ...

, when the latter died with no legitimate children. He married Beatrix Bulteel (1859 – 27 April 1937), his second cousin once removed, on 26 May 1879). They had six children: *Lady Violet Lambton (3 July 1880 – 22 February 1976), married

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and had issue. *Lady Lilian Lambton (8 December 1881 – 26 September 1966), married

Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, (29 December 1873 – 11 July 1951), styled Lord Dunglass between 1881 and 1918, was a British peer and banker. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1930 to 1951. H ...

and had issue. * John Frederick Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham (7 October 1884 – 4 February 1970) *Hon. Geoffrey Lambton (13 September 1887 – 1 September 1914), married Dorothy Leyland and had issue. *Hon. Claud Lambton (3 December 1888 – 7 September 1976), married Olive Eleanor Lockwood and had issue. *Lady Joan Katherine Lambton (21 September 1893 – 4 January 1967), married Hugh Joicey, 3rd Baron Joicey and had issue. He was elected at the 1880 general election as a Liberal

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(MP) for

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, 384 and held that seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election. He did not stand in

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, but having joined the Liberal unionists in 1885 he unsuccessfully contested

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in 1886,

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,Craig, op. cit., page 197 and a by-election in South East Durham in February 1898.Craig, op. cit., page 274 He was returned to the

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after a fifteen-years absence at the 1900 general election, when he defeated

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, the Liberal winner of the 1898 by-election. Lambton was re-elected unopposed in

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, but lost the seat by a wide margin to a Liberal candidate in January 1910.

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Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 31 January 1929) was a British peer, a Liberal (and later Liberal Unionist) politician, and the son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham. He inherited the Earldom from his twin brot ...

Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Durham, E4 Liberal Unionist Party peers