Sir John Lambert, 1st Baronet (1666 – 4 February 1723) of London, was a French-born English merchant. He was the eldest son of Jean Lambert (d. 1702), a merchant of

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, France, by Marie Le Fevre. A

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, he was educated in England at

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and became wealthy through trade. He was one of the directors of the

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. He was knighted in or after September 1710, when he had advanced £400,000 or more to the British Government.

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(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 10 On the recommendation of Robert Harley,

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, he was created a

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on 16 February 1711. He married, in or before 1690, Madeleine, daughter of Benjamin Bruzelin, who was a merchant in

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. Their first son, also called John, was born on 22 March 1690. The first baronet died on 4 February 1723, and he was succeeded by his eldest son, John. Madeleine died in Clarges Street,

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, in April 1737, aged about 70. The second baronet married Anne Holmes, whose father Tempest Holmes was a Commissioner of the Victualling Office. The second baronet died aged 82 on 4 September 1772, and was in turn succeeded by his eldest son John (11 October 1728 – 21 May 1799), the third of the

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of that name.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lambert, John, 1st Baronet 1666 births 1723 deaths 18th-century English merchants Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain French emigrants to England People from Charente-Maritime