About George Lambert
Lived 1796 – 1869 (aged 72–73). George Lambert was a sailor and naval officer.
Admiral Sir George Robert Lambert (8 September 1795 – 5 June 1869) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
Naval career Lambert was the son of Captain Robert Alexander Lambert RN, himself the second son of Sir John Lambert, 2nd Baronet. His elder brother was General Sir John Lambert, and his younger brother was Captain Henry Lambert.
Lambert joined the Royal Navy in 1809. Promoted to captain in 1825, he commanded HMS Alligator, HMS Endymion, HMS Imaum and then HMS Fox. 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.
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1863 and retired in 1864.
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Who was George Lambert?
British Royal Navy officer (1795-1869)
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George Lambert was born in 1796.
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George Lambert died on 5 June 1869.
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George Lambert was a sailor and naval officer.
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