John Laurence Lambert

John Laurence Lambert (November 2, 1936 – December 2, 2014) was an Australian educator and author.

Early life and education John Lambert was born in 1936 at the western New South Wales town of Wilcannia where his father was an Anglican minister with the Bush Church Aid society. As his father moved, he lived in Carlton, Katoomba and Springwood attending school in those areas.

From 1994 to 2010, after leaving the Department of Education, Lambert took up a role with the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation as schools development officer, leading the site selection, establishment and early years of school growth for a network of low fee, Christian schools in the west and south of Sydney and New South Wales south coast. His role also assisted in the transition of three other independent schools into the Anglican Schools Corporation, and the planning of several new schools that did not subsequently proceed. Lambert was also a prolific writer of hymns, with 76 of them printed in a compilation, Hymns for the Twenty First Century, prepared after his death by his local church.

Death Lambert died at home in Warrimoo on 2 December 2014. suffering from lung cancer.

Awards He was recognised with the Anniversary of National Service 1951–1972 Medal for his National Service in the early 1950s.

Lambert was awarded a member of the Order of Australia in 2001 for "service to education, particularly in the area of curriculum development frameworks within New South Wales, and to the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation".

Published works Non fiction Handbook of Modern History: Book One (1961-1962) – Melbourne : Cheshire Handbook of Modern History: Book Two (1966) – Melbourne : Cheshire

Hymns Hymns for the Twenty First Century (2015) – compiled by Patricia Browne

Monographs High School Education and Industry in the United States a Report Compiled Following a Visit to the United States On a Fulbright Scholarship March/April 1988 (1988) – [Sydney]: N.S.W. Dept. of Education The Liberal Tradition: Problems With Competencies, Profiles and Vocationalism (1994) - Sydney : Monograph (Australian College of Education. N.S.W. Chapter) No 21

Novels A Land of Plenty (2009) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Beyond All Seas (2010) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Arthur: King of the Britons (2011) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Apocalypse (2013) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, A Promise Kept (2013) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, NSW Australian series Two Tales of the Mountains (2011) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Two Tales of the West (2013) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Weston trilogy Risk and Reward (2012) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Lost and Forgotten (2011) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld, Encounter Hall (2011) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld,

Short stories The Lamp and Other Stories (2014) – Zeus, Burleigh Qld,