A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lambert, George Robert
LAMBERT. (Capt., 1825. f-p., 15; h-p., 2.3.)
George Robert Lambert, a son of Robt. Lambert, Esq., many years a Captain R.N., is brother of the late Vice-Admiral Robt. Lambert,[1] and the late Capt. Henry Lambert, R.N.,[2] and of two gentlemen holding high rank in the Army.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Eagle 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley. Continuing in that ship for a period of five years, he attended in consequence the expedition to the Walcheren, co-operated in the defence of Cadiz in 1810, assisted at the capture, 22 Nov. 1811, of La Corceyre frigate, carrying 28 guns, together with 170 seamen and 130 soldiers, and beheld the fall, in 1813, of Fiume, Trieste, and other places in the Adriatic. After a further servitude of eleven months in the Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, on the Channel station, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 May, 1815, and appointed to the Ister 36, Capt. Thos. Forrest. Quitting the latter frigate in Jan. 1817, he next, from 1 Jan. 1820, until within a few days of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 19 Jan. 1822, officiated as Flag-Lieutenant, in the Vigo 74, to his brother, Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert, on the St. Helena station. On 23 Feb. 1824 Capt. Lambert was awarded command of the Camelion sloop, in which we find him employed on particular service until advanced to Post-rank, 8 Aug. 1825. His appointments have since been – 23 Sept. 1831, to the Alligator 28, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned home and was paid off 27 Aug. 1835 – 8 Dec. 1845, to the Endymion 44, on the North America and West India station – and 23 Jan. 1847, to be Commodore at Jamaica, where he is now serving with his broad pendant in the Imaum 72. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral Lambert attained the rank of Lieutenant in 1791, and served in that capacity on board the Barfleur 98 in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794. In 1795-6 he acted as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Rainier, in the Suffolk 74, at the reduction of Ceylon, Amboyna, Banda, &c,; and in 1801, being at the time in the Saturn 74, he accompanied the expedition under Sir Hyde Parker to the Baltic. He became a Rear-Admiral 12 Aug. 1819; commanded in chief on the St. Helena station, for the secure detention of Buonaparte, from 1820 to 1822; was constituted a Vice-Admiral 22 July, 1830; and died about Sept. 1836.
- ↑ A partial sketch of the services of Capt. Henry Lambert may be found in our memoir of Capt. Hen. Ducie Chads.