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Why was melbourne called melbourne?

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I really want to know the answer to this question...

Why was melbourne(victoria, Australia) called melbourne in the first?
If melbourne was name after someone... Who was that someone?

Thanks... It would be so great if you have answer!!!

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The area of the Yarra Parks and Port Phillip that is now Melbourne was first settled by the British in 1835. These settlers came from Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land). The area was already inhabited by the indigenous Kulin people. A transaction was negotiated for 600,000 acres of land from eight Wurundjeri chiefs;
The settlement was named Melbourne in the same year after the British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who resided in the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire. Melbourne was declared a city by Queen Victoria on 25 June 1847. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/melbourne...

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1837

The new settlement was named Melbourne (after the British Prime Minister at the time: Lord Melbourne).

The rectangular street grids were laid out.

At various times before then is was also known as Batmania, Bearbrass, Bearport, Bareheap and Bearbury. Some of these names were probably derived from the Aboriginal name for the area which was Berren or Bararing.

AS AN ADDED BIT OF TRIVIA

1835

John Batman and a group of businessmen bought 243,000 ha of land from the local Aborigines for some trinkets (just like Peter Menhuit bought Manhattan from the Indians).

DID YOU KNOW?
John Batman thought he was buying the land from the Aborigines. The Aborigines thought they were only granting him the right to pass through their land. This purchase was later declared illegal by the government.

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1835

About the same time another expedition led by John Pascoe Fawkner made camp on the other side of the river not far from John Batman.

The first building in the new settlement was Fawkner's grog shop. (Near the present day Spencer Street railway station.).

John Fawkner also brought the first settlers in his schooner the Enterprise.
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourn...
agreed melbourne after lord melbourne however originally it was called beerbrass and one other name which escapes me before the name was officially changed to melbourne.

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