George Lambert (Royal Navy officer)

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]

• 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.