Ralph Lambton
Ralph Lambton Esq. (c. 1651–1717) was an ancestor of the Earl of Durham. Biography Lambton was born around 1651 in Chester-Le-Street, Durham, England, Durham, England to Henry Lambton (d. 1693), Henry Lambton (son of Colonel Sir William Lambton (d. 1644), William Lambton) and Mary Davison (daughter of Sir Alexander Davison of Blakiston). Lambton had a brother, William Lambton (1640–1724), William. Lambton married to Dorothy Hedworth and was father to: * Major General John Lambton (British Army officer), John Lambton (1710–1794) * Henry Lambton MP for Durham (d. 1761) * Major General Hedworth Lambton (d. 1758), Hedworth Lambton (d. 1758) References

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Chester-Le-Street
Chester-le-Street (), also known as Chester, is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England, around north of Durham and also close to Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne. It is located on the River Wear, which runs out to sea at Sunderland to the east. The town holds markets on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The town's history is ancient, records go back to a Roman-built fort called Concangis. The Roman fort is the "Chester" (from the Latin ''castra'') of the town's name; the "Street" refers to the paved Roman road that ran north–south through the town, now the route called Front Street. The parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is where the body of Anglo-Saxon St Cuthbert remained for 112 years before being transferred to Durham Cathedral and site of the first Gospels translation into English, Aldred writing the Old English gloss between the lines of the Lindisfarne Gospels there. From 1894 until 2009, local government districts were governed from the ...
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