Samuel Lambert (15 June 1806 – 9 April 1875) was a French-born Belgian banker of

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descent. He was an agent of de Rothschild Frères in Belgium. In 1830, he joined his father-in-law Lazare Richtenberger, who had already served as the Rothschild's agent in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. He moved to

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in 1850 to establish another branch of the Rothschild banking house, but returned to Brussels after Richtenberger's death in 1853, where he reorganized the Brussels and Antwerp branches under the name of

Banque Lambert Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL, french: Banque Bruxelles Lambert) was a Belgian bank that was created through merger in 1975 and became part of ING Group in 1998. It provided retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in Belgi ...

. Lambert had four children: * Léonid Lambert (1835–1918), married to (1833–1914) * Marie Lambert (1841–1935), married to Émile Vanderheym (1833–1889) * Alice Lambert (1850–?), married to (1843–1916) * (1851–1919), married to (1863–1916)

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1806 births 1875 deaths French emigrants Belgian bankers Belgian people of Jewish descent Jewish bankers {{Belgium-bio-stub