Admiral Sir George Robert Lambert GCB (8 September 1795 – 5 June 1869) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
Sir George Lambert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 September 1795[1] |
| Died | 5 June 1869 (aged 73) |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  Royal Navy |
| Years of service | 1809–1864 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | HMS Alligator HMS Endymion HMS Imaum HMS Fox Nore Command |
| Battles / wars | Second Anglo-Burmese War |
| Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Naval career
editLambert was the son of Captain Robert Alexander Lambert RN,[2] himself the second son of Sir John Lambert, 2nd Baronet. His elder brother was General Sir John Lambert, GCB and his younger brother was Captain Henry Lambert.[3]
Lambert joined the Royal Navy in 1809.[4] Promoted to captain in 1825, he commanded HMS Alligator, HMS Endymion, HMS Imaum and then HMS Fox.[4] In 1852, in HMS Fox, he was dispatched to Burma to deal with some infringements of the Treaty of Yandabo. Lambert, described by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of India, in a private letter as the "combustible commodore",[5] eventually provoked a naval confrontation in extremely questionable circumstances by blockading the port of Rangoon and thus started the Second Anglo-Burmese War which ended in the British annexing the province of Pegu and renaming it Lower Burma.[6]
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1863 and retired in 1864.[4]
See also
edit- Rear-Admiral Charles Austen whose death while in command of the Royal Naval forces in Burma led to the appointment of Lambert to the vacant command.
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). . . John Murray – via Wikisource.
References
edit- ^ Boase, Frederic (1897). Modern English Biography: I-Q. Netherton and Worth. p. 283. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ Biographies of British generals
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 773. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ a b c William Loney RN
- ^ D.G.E. Hall (1960). Burma (PDF). Hutchinson University Library. pp. 109–113. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2005.
- ^ Southeast Asia: a historical encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, Volume 1 By Keat Gin Ooi, p. 736