Ralph Lambert

Ralph Lambert (1667–1731)[1] was an Irish Anglican priest[2] in the first half of the 18th century.[3]

Life

He was the son of George Lambert, and was born in County Louth.[4]

Lambert was a contemporary of Jonathan Swift at Trinity College, Dublin.[5] He became Swift's rival, and took the post of chaplain to Thomas Wharton, 1st Earl of Wharton, when Wharton became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1709.[6] He was Dean of Down from 1709 until 1717;[7] Bishop of Dromore from 1717 until 1727;[7] and Bishop of Meath from 1726 until 1731.[7] He was one of a group of Low Church, reforming clergy around William King, that included also Theophilus Bolton, John Stearne, and Edward Synge.[8]

Works

• A Sermon, Preach'd Nov. the 12th. 1702: Being the Day, Appointed for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God: ... in the Parish-church of St. Giles's in the Fields, 1703[9]
• An answer to a late pamphlet entitled, A Vindication of marriage as solemnized by Presbyterians in the North of Ireland, Dublin 1704; against John McBride, anonymous.[10]
• A serious and humble Address to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, wherein the Causes of that Contempt and Scorn the Clergy and Religion groan under are enquired into, London 1705. Anonymous.[11]
• A friendly admonition to the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, sermons, 1705[12]
• A Sermon preached to the Protestants of Ireland now residing in London, at their anniversary meeting, at St. James, Westminster, Oct. 23, 1708, a sermon on Isaiah 59 (1708), anti-Catholic and influenced by Sir John Temple and Henry Jones[13][14]
• A Letter, printed in a Tract, called "Partiality Detected", Dublin 1709.[15]

Family

Aedicule in memory to his wife Susanna who died in 1707, located in St. Nicholas's' Church, Dundalk

Lambert married twice. His first wife Susanna died in 1707;[16][17] she was the daughter of Smythe Kelly. In 1716 he married Elizabeth Rowley of Clonmethan.[18][4] His daughter Elizabeth married Arthur Dillon and was mother of Sir John Talbot Dillon, 1st Baronet.[19] Another daughter married William Smyth, Dean of Ardfert, eldest son of Thomas Smyth.[20]

References

1. “A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists” by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
2. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 348–350. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
3. NLI Sources
4. Leslie, James B. (1911). "Armagh clergy and parishes: being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, &c". Internet Archive. Dundalk: W. Tempest. p. 281. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
5. David Oakleaf (6 October 2015). A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-317-31552-0.
6. Susan M. Fitzmaurice (1 January 2002). The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A Pragmatic Approach. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 170 note 19. ISBN 90-272-5115-0.
7. Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates and ..., Volume 3 By Henry Cotton. pp. 122, 195, 283. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
8. D. Hayton; J. Kelly; J. Bergin (13 May 2010). The Eighteenth-Century Composite State: Representative Institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-230-27496-9.
9. Ralph Lambert (1703). A Sermon, Preach'd Nov. the 12th. 1702: Being the Day, Appointed for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God: ... in the Parish-church of St. Giles's in the Fields. By Ralph Lambert, ... William Lucas, and sold.
10. James Kennedy; W. A. Smith; A. F. Johnson. Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, revised edition 1971. Vol. I. Ardent Media. p. 94. GGKEY:RDA0BW9NEK5.
11. Samuel Halkett; James Kennedy; John Laing (1926). Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. Ardent Media. p. 226. GGKEY:0HXUCXC4634.
12. Ralph Lambert (1705). A friendly admonition to the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, sermons.
13. Corporation of London. Library (1859). A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London: Instituted in the Year 1824. p. 179.
14. Marianne Elliott (24 September 2009). When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland – Unfinished History. OUP Oxford. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-19-166426-7.
15. Henry Cotton (1860). Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. Hodges and Smith. p. 238.
16. Garstin, John R. (1907). "The Lambert Tablet". Journal of the Society for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead. 7 (2, part I): 145–147.
17. Ross, Noel (2004). "Memorial Inscriptions in St. Nicholas' Parish Church, Dundalk". Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society. 25 (4): 476–483. JSTOR 27729951.
18. Sir Bernard Burke (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852. Colburn and Company. p. 1256.
19. Arthur Collins (1806). The Baronetage of England: Containing a New Genealogical History of the Existing English Baronets with Their Armorial Hearings Corrected Engraved. John stockdale. p. 495.
20. John Debrett (1820). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. p. 1178.