Not as colourful a character as Henry Fleming, but a solid contributor to society and a man of rather strongly-held opinions about education, and other things.
George Lambert in 1851 was a school boy in Midsomer Norton. The school was St Gregory's, Downside. Downside is a hamlet in the parish of Midsomer Norton in Somerset. All sounds suspiciously close to Midsomer Murders, doesn't it?
Midsomer Norton in "A Vision of Britain Through Time" website
The 1851 census for the school shows pages and pages of boys. All "scholars". George and Henry Lambert, born 1837 and 1838 respectively, are on the same page, both born in Ireland, but the town is not specified.
In the Downside Review, Volume 33 (1914), (the school magazine), we find a notice:
Sir George T. Lambert, CB, second son of Henry Lambert, Esq., MP , of Carnagh; came to Downside September 27, 1849; successively private secretary to Lord Derby, Sir G. Trevelyan and Lord Brassey; Director of the Estates and Finances of Greenwich Hospital 1885-1901; a Governor of Christ's Hospital; C.B. 1897; Knighted 1903.
There is no doubt that we are talking about the same person. Through the Naval List, for example, we can verify that Lambert was Lord Brassey's secretary in the Admiralty.
Next time, Lambert of Carnagh.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
George Thomas Lambert: the brilliant genealogical detective work laid bare
Last time: No. 3 Charles Street, Private Secretary to the Admiralty, and great genealogical sleuthing by me
Let's get to the brilliance as fast as I can.
George Lambert wasn't very easy to trace using ordinary fishing techniques on the Web. He just wasn't a flamboyant guy, not that I could tell.
In short, I traced him forward in the census, finding him in 1881 and 1901, but not yet in 1891. He had a long career at the Admiralty, and at some point became a trustee of Greenwich Hospital. I don't know whether that was a full-time job.
I found the index entry for the grant of probate in 1918, to two ladies I guessed to be his sisters.
I just kept putting his name into searches, trying different additional words. There was a George Lambert, age 13, born in Ireland, appearing at school in Midsomer Norton, in Somerset, in 1851. Could this be the right one?
On the same list was another boy, Henry Lambert, 14, also born in Ireland. I wonder, were they perchance related?
It was hard to figure out the name of the school but eventually the pieces came together. I tracked down a reference to George in an issue of the school magazine, many years later, mentioning him as a trustee of the Greenwich Hospital. Bingo. He was Sir George, Companion of the Order of the Bath by the time he died.
He was unmarried.
The one interesting thing I found about him was a reference, late in life, to his having sailed to America and back, and while in New York, having been a guest of Madame Hoity Toity.
I realize the diehards among us want the details. They're coming.
But don't you think this was impressive detective work?
It gets easier, too, because there is enough history to this particular Lambert family that they appear in lists of peers.
More to come.
Let's get to the brilliance as fast as I can.
George Lambert wasn't very easy to trace using ordinary fishing techniques on the Web. He just wasn't a flamboyant guy, not that I could tell.
In short, I traced him forward in the census, finding him in 1881 and 1901, but not yet in 1891. He had a long career at the Admiralty, and at some point became a trustee of Greenwich Hospital. I don't know whether that was a full-time job.
I found the index entry for the grant of probate in 1918, to two ladies I guessed to be his sisters.
I just kept putting his name into searches, trying different additional words. There was a George Lambert, age 13, born in Ireland, appearing at school in Midsomer Norton, in Somerset, in 1851. Could this be the right one?
On the same list was another boy, Henry Lambert, 14, also born in Ireland. I wonder, were they perchance related?
It was hard to figure out the name of the school but eventually the pieces came together. I tracked down a reference to George in an issue of the school magazine, many years later, mentioning him as a trustee of the Greenwich Hospital. Bingo. He was Sir George, Companion of the Order of the Bath by the time he died.
He was unmarried.
The one interesting thing I found about him was a reference, late in life, to his having sailed to America and back, and while in New York, having been a guest of Madame Hoity Toity.
I realize the diehards among us want the details. They're coming.
But don't you think this was impressive detective work?
It gets easier, too, because there is enough history to this particular Lambert family that they appear in lists of peers.
More to come.
Monday, March 28, 2011
No. 3 Charles Street: Private Secretary to the Admiralty, and great genealogical sleuthing by me
It's one of those occasions when I feel so clever. Actually, instead of patting myself too hard on the back, I have to say that the Web makes research 1,000 times easier than it ever was. Wonderful!
OK, on with the show. Who lived on Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London, in the 1871 census? Who were these people.
At No. 3 in 1871 we have:
George T. Lambert, Lodger, Unmarried, 33 years old, Private Secretary to the Admiralty, born in Ireland
Clara Beetles (?), Head, Unmarried, 33, Landlady of Lodging House, born Bewerty, Huntingdonshire
Lucy A. Sharp, Servant, Unmarried, 21, Domestic Servant, born Vauxhall, Middlesex
Agusta Beetles (?), Sister, Unmarried, 25, Milliner, born Earsdon, Cambridgeshire.
OK, on with the show. Who lived on Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London, in the 1871 census? Who were these people.
At No. 3 in 1871 we have:
George T. Lambert, Lodger, Unmarried, 33 years old, Private Secretary to the Admiralty, born in Ireland
Clara Beetles (?), Head, Unmarried, 33, Landlady of Lodging House, born Bewerty, Huntingdonshire
Lucy A. Sharp, Servant, Unmarried, 21, Domestic Servant, born Vauxhall, Middlesex
Agusta Beetles (?), Sister, Unmarried, 25, Milliner, born Earsdon, Cambridgeshire.
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