Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Melbourne is the name of several places: Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, Arkansas, USA Melbourne, Florida, USA Melbourne, Kentucky, USA Melbourne, Iowa, USA Melbourne Hall All these places derive their name, directly or indirectly, from the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire, England. Near the village is a manor house called Melbourne Hall, the home of the Lamb family since the 1770s. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was Prime Minister of Britain in 1834 and from 1835 to 1841, was born and died there, and Melbourne Australia was named in his honour in 1835. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.