Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 31 January 1929) was a British hereditary peer and a Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) politician.
Early life and education
Lambton was the second son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham and his wife Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn.
He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards.
Political career
Lambton was elected at the 1880 general election as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for South Durham, 384 and held that seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election. He did not stand in 1885, but having joined the Liberal unionists in 1885 he unsuccessfully contested Berwick-Upon-Tweed in 1886, Sunderland in 1892, and a by-election in South East Durham in February 1898.
He was returned to the House of Commons after a fifteen-year absence at the 1900 general election, when he defeated Joseph Richardson, the Liberal winner of the 1898 by-election. Lambton was re-elected unopposed in 1906, but lost the seat by a wide margin to a Liberal candidate in January 1910.