A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lambert, William
LAMBERT. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 11; h-p., 36.)
William Lambert was born in the early part of 1788, and died at the commencement of 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1800, as A.B., on board the Furious gun-brig, Lieut-Commander Wm. Froth, with whom he served in the North Sea and Baltic until April, 1802. From Jan. 1803 until May, 1804, we find him employed as Fst.-cl. Vol. and Midshipman, in the Princess Charlotte 38, and Ruby and Galykheid 64’s, all commanded by Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, on the Irish and North Sea stations. During the next three years he presents himself to our notice as again attached to the Princess Charlotte, commanded at first by Capt. Gardner, but afterwards by Capt. Geo. Tobin, under whom, besides being occasionally employed in escorting convoys, he saw a good deal of boat service on the coast of Cuba, and took part, as Master’s Mate, 5 Oct. 1805, in a severe action of an hour, near Tobago, with La Cyane of 26 and La Naïade of 16 guns, the former of which then surrendered. In the course of 1807 Mr. Lambert successively joined the Hibernia 110, Capt. Wm. Bedford, Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, the Dreadnought 98, Capts. Wm. Lechmere and Geo. Burgoyne Salt, to which ship he was confirmed by commission dated 7 May, 1808. His subsequent appointments were – 1 Sept. 1810, to the Mutine 18, Capts. Chas. Montagu Fabian and Nevinson De Courcy, on the Brazilian station, whence he invalided 18 Feb. 1811 – 20 Jan., 1812, for three months, to the Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, employed on the coast of France – 29 April, 1813, to the Medway 74, Capt. Augustus Brine, with whom he proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope – 22 May, 1814, to the Harpy 18, commanded by Capt. Thos. Griffith Allen, and also, for five months, by himself, off the Isle of France – and lastly, 7 Feb. 1815, again to the Medway, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape, whence he returned to England in April, 1816. In July, 1814, while First of the Harpy, Mr. Lambert took command of her boats and, at great peril, rescued the crew of L’Eugénie schooner, who had been wrecked, on 19 of the previous April, on Sandy Island, while on their passage from the Seychelles to the Manritius. The Master and one seaman belonging to the Harpy were on the occasion drowned by the upsetting of a boat. The subject of the foregoing narrative accepted the rank of Retired Commander 30 April, 1845.
He was in the commission of the peace for co. Cork; and married, 29 March, 1832, Anne, daughter of the late Adam Carr, Esq. By that lady he has left issue.