Alfred Uvedale Miller Lambert (1870–1928) was an English

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and

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. He and his wife Cecily (Jane Frances Cecily, née Hoare) lived at South Park, Bletchingley,

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. His parents were Henry Thomas Lambert and Georgina Emily Lambert (née Miller), who bought South Park in 1875. In 1926 Lambert and his wife offered a barn (and also the adjoining stables) which they owned at Stonehall Farm, Hurst Green,

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, Surrey as one of the 25 new churches wanted in the

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. The barn was moved to North Sheen (now incorporated into Kew), where it was reconstructed as a church, St Philip and All Saints, now known as The Barn Church, Kew. Lambert died before its completion, and the church is dedicated in his memory. The

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at The Barn Church was furnished in memory of Uvedale and Cecily Lambert by their son Uvedale Lambert and was dedicated by The

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Charles Lambert on

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, 2 November 1933. Lambert's papers were donated to Surrey History Centre in

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by his granddaughter, Sarah Goad.

Family

The Lamberts had one child, a son, Henry Uvedale Hoare Lambert (1909–1983), who inherited South Park and, like his father, was also a local historian.

Works

*''Bletchingley: a parish history, together with some account of the family of De Clere chiefly in the south of England'' (1921), Mitchell Hughes and Clark * ''Godstone: a parish history'' (1929)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lambert, Alfred Uvedale Miller 1870 births 1928 deaths 19th-century antiquarians 19th-century British historians 20th-century antiquarians 20th-century British historians English local historians English philanthropists Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People from Tandridge (district)