Thom's Irish Who's Who/Lambert, Richard Anderson

LAMBERT, Richard Anderson, A.B. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.D. (Edin.); represents the head of one of the few Wexford families still remaining which link the present time with the days of Strongbow and Dermot MacMorrogh (the last native Chief of Leinster) from whom they obtained grants of land as early as A.D. 1171. Educ.: studied 1stly scientific subjects at Trinity College, Dublin, but subsequently studied medicine and graduated as M.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1877; practised medicine for several years in England and elsewhere but has since retired; has written certain original and important articles on University Education and Degrees in some of the leading journals which elicited the approbation of various eminent authorities, and which have contributed more or less to alter and improve the older methods of teaching and examination in some of our leading Universities. Recns.: Antiquarian and Genealogical researches; scientific studies, gardening, etc. Res.: John's Hill, Waterford.