George Lambert (Royal Navy officer)

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.

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

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]

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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. William Loney RN
  5. D.G.E. Hall (1960). Burma (PDF). Hutchinson University Library. pp. 109–113. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-05-19.
  6. Southeast Asia: a historical encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, Volume 1 By Keat Gin Ooi, p. 736
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir William Hope-Johnstone		 Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1863–1864		 Succeeded by
Sir Charles Talbot
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