George Lambert (Royal Navy officer)

Sir George Lambert
Born8 September 1795[1]
Died5 June 1869(1869-06-05) (aged 73)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch Royal Navy
Years of service1809–1864
RankAdmiral
CommandsHMS Alligator
HMS Endymion
HMS Imaum
HMS Fox
Nore Command
Battles / warsSecond Anglo-Burmese War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

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.

Lambert 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

  • 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). "Lambert, George Robert" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ^ Boase, Frederic (1897). Modern English Biography: I-Q. Netherton and Worth. p. 283. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  2. ^ Biographies of British generals
  3. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 773. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b c William Loney RN
  5. ^ D.G.E. Hall (1960). Burma (PDF). Hutchinson University Library. pp. 109–113. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2005.
  6. ^ Southeast Asia: a historical encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, Volume 1 By Keat Gin Ooi, p. 736
Military offices
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1863–1864 		Succeeded by