Robert Lambert (Master of St John's College, Cambridge)

Summary

Robert Lambert, D.D. (b Beverley 21 April 1677 - d Cambridge 25 January 1735) was a priest and academic in the second half of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th centuries.[1]

Robert Lambert by John Theodore Heins

Lambert educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[2] He graduated B.A. in 1697, and M.A. in 1700; and was a Fellow of St John's from then until his appointment as Master in 1727. Ordained in 1706, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1727 until 1728, and again from 1729 until 1730.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Baker, Thomas, History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, edited by John E.B. Mayor, 2 vols.; Cambridge University Press, 1869 (reissued by the publisher, 2009; ISBN 978-1-108-00375-9)
  2. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p38
  3. ^ List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge