LAMBERT, John Arthur (eld. son of sir John Lambert, G.C.B. d. 1846). b. 30 Sep. 1817; ensign grenadier guards 10 July 1835, lieut.-col. 12 March 1861 to 27 Dec. 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. royal Irish Fusiliers 25 April 1880 to death; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Weston house, Thames Ditton 17 Sep. 1887.
LAMBERT, Nathaniel Grace (son of Richard Lambert). b. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1811; a coalowner; sheriff of Bucks. 1865; M.P. Bucks. 1868–80; captain commandant Taplow yeomanry lancers. d. Denham court near Uxbridge 9 Dec. 1882.
LAMBERT, Rowley. b. 22 April 1828; entered navy 1841; captain 29 Sep. 1855; commodore on Australian station 28 May 1867 to 8 April 1870; commanded detached squadron for particular service 8 June 1875 to 1877; V.A. 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Grosvenor hotel, Victoria station, London 22 July 1880.
LAMBERT, William. b. Burstow, Surrey 1779; a miller at Nutfield, also in the fuller’s earth trade; in match Lord’s v. England 20 July 1801; not allowed to play at Lord’s after 1818 being accused of selling the England v. Nottingham match by not playing his best; one of the most successful of cricketers, excelling in batting, bowling, fielding, keeping wicket and in single wicket playing; one of the few cricketers who has made 100 runs twice in the same match 1817; beat at single wicket two of the best players Lord F. Beauclerk and T. C. Howard, Lord’s 6 and 7 July 1810, a sum of money was paid by the defeated to prevent this match being reported in Bentley; author of The cricketer’s guide. Lewes 1816; Instructions and rules for playing cricket 1816; a great bell ringer. d. Nutfield 19 April 1851. bur. Burstow.
LAMBERT, William Blake. b. Berwick on Tweed 1816; chief engineer of General screw steam shipping co. to 1856; engineer at Portsmouth dockyard 1856–59; chief engineer to the Russian navy 1859–66. d. St. Petersburg 18 Feb. 1874.
LAMBTON, Hedworth (3 son of Wm. Henry Lambton 1764–97, M.P. city of Durham 1787–97). b. 26 March 1797; M.P. North Durham 21 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. d. 8 Lansdowne place, Brighton 16 Sep. 1876.
LAMBTON, William Henry (brother of preceding). b. 27 March 1793. d. 17 Chesham place, London 3 April 1866, personalty sworn under £500,000, 2 June 1866.
LAMINGTON, Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Baillie-Cochrane, 1 Baron (1 son of admiral sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B. 1789–1872). b. 27 Nov. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837; contested Bridport 29 June 1841, M.P. Bridport 1841–52; M.P. co. Lanark, Feb. to April 1857; a member of the Young England party; M.P. Honiton 1859–68; M.P. Isle of Wight 1870–80; trustee of National Portrait Gallery 1876; cr. baron Lamington of Lamington, co. Lanark 3 May 1880; author of Poems 1838; The Morea, a poem 1841, 2 ed. 1841; Ernest Vane 2 vols. 1849; Young Italy 1850; Florence the beautiful 2 vols. 1854; The map of Italy 1856; Historical pictures 2 vols. 1865; Francis the first 2 vols. 1870; Historic châteaux, Blois, Fontainebleau, Vincennes 1877. d. 26 Wilton crescent, London 15 Feb. 1890. I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1890 p. 231, portrait; Times 17, 25 Feb. 1890.
LAMONT, Johann Von (son of a custom-house officer, who d. 1816). b. Braemar, Aberdeenshire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. James’s monastery, Ratisbon; assistant astronomer at observatory of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen 1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S. 1852; professor of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death; decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin 1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart 1824–71. d. Munich 6 Aug. 1879. bur. in churchyard at Bogenhausen. Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl 208–12 (1880); Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x 358 (1880).
LAMPSON, Sir Curtis Miranda, 1 Baronet (4 son of Wm. Lampson of Newhaven, Vermont). b. Vermont 21 Sep. 1806; a fur merchant at 37 Friday st. Cheapside, London 1830; senior partner in firm of C. M. Lampson & Co. 9 Queen st. place, Upper Thames st., merchants; naturalised 14 May 1849; a director of Atlantic telegraph co. 1856, vice-chairman; deputy governor of Hudson’s Bay company 1863–72; created baronet 16 Nov. 1866. d. 80 Eaton sq. London 12 March 1885, personalty sworn at £401,000, 7 May. I.L.N. xlix 545, 558 (1866), portrait.