george, lambert, royal, navy, officer, admiral, george, robert, lambert, september, 1795, june, 1869, royal, navy, officer, went, commander, chief, nore, george, lambertborn8, september, 1795, died5, june, 1869, 1869, aged, allegianceunited, kingdomservice, br. 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 LambertBorn8 September 1795 1 Died5 June 1869 1869 06 05 aged 73 AllegianceUnited KingdomService wbr branchRoyal NavyYears of service1809 1864RankAdmiralCommands heldHMS AlligatorHMS EndymionHMS ImaumHMS FoxNore CommandBattles warsSecond Anglo Burmese WarAwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the BathNaval career editLambert 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 See also editRear 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 edit Boase Frederic 1897 Modern English Biography I Q Netherton and Worth p 283 Retrieved 22 June 2019 Biographies of British generals Burke s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage Burke s Peerage Limited 1885 p 773 Retrieved 22 June 2019 a b c William Loney RN D G E Hall 1960 Burma PDF Hutchinson University Library pp 109 113 Archived from the original PDF on 19 May 2005 Southeast Asia a historical encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor Volume 1 By Keat Gin Ooi p 736 Military officesPreceded bySir William Hope Johnstone Commander in Chief The Nore1863 1864 Succeeded bySir Charles Talbot Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George Lambert Royal Navy officer amp oldid 1174607263, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
