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  John Lambert (General) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lambert, born at Gallon Hall, Kirkby Malham, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, of a long-established family, studied law at the Inns of Court in London.
Lambert's part in the general plan of the resulting Worcester campaign was carried out brilliantly, and in the crowning victory of Worcester he commanded the right wing of the English army, and had his horse shot under him.
Lambert, though holding no military commission, was the most popular of the old Cromwellian generals with the rank and file of the army, and it was very generally believed that he would install himself in Oliver Cromwell's seat of power.
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 JOHN LAMBERT (1619-1694) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN LAMBERT (1619-1694)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lambert took a prominent part in the committee of council which drew up instructions to the major-generals, and he was probably the originator, and certainly the organizer, of the system of police which these officers were to control.
Lambert, though holding no military commission, was the most popular of the old Cromwellian generals with the rank and file of the army, and it was very generally believed that he would instal himself in Olivers seat of power.
Lamberts army began to melt away, and he was kept in suspense by Monk till his whole army fell from him and he returned to London almost alone.
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 LAMBERT, JOHN (d. 1538) - LoveToKnow Article on LAMBERT, JOHN (d. 1538)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LAMBERT, F.LAMBERT, J. LAMBERT, FRANCIS (c 1486-1530), Protestant reformer, was the son of a papal official at Avignon, where he was born between 1485 and 1487.
Lambert was also one of the divines who took part in the great conference of Marburg in 1529; he had long wavered between the Lutheran and the Zwinglian view of the Lord's Supper, but at this conference he definitely adopted the Zwinglian view.
For five hours Lambert disputed with the king and ten bishops; and then, as he boldly denied that the Eucharist was the body of Christ, he was condemned to death by Cromwell as vicegerent.
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 Lambert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'Lambert's cosine law' states that the brightness of a diffusely radiating plane surface is proportional to the cosine of the angle formed by the line of sight and the normal to the surface.
Lambert's book is also remarkable for the modernity of its methodological stand: his systematic survey of the differences among facts, theories, predictions and possible verifications was not emulated in cosmological literature until the 20th century.
Lambert's physical erudition indicates yet another clear way in which it would be possible to eliminate the traditional myth of three-dimensional geometry through the parallels with the physical dependence of functions.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Lambert.html   (2205 words)

  
 John Lambert (General) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In October 1651 Lambert was made a commissioner to settle the affairs of Scotland, and on the death of Ireton he was appointed lord deputy of (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland (January 1652).
Lambert was now sent with a large force to meet (Click link for more info and facts about George Monck) George Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to terms.
On the Restoration Lambert was exempted from danger of life by an address of both Houses to the king, but the next parliament (1662) charged him with (A crime that undermines the offender's government) high treason.
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 Lambert Family In England
John was born April 1841 in Horncastle and died in Garnett, Anderson County, Kansas.
John Married Hannah Elder Nickelson in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, December 1864.
Both John and Hannah are buried in Anderson County, Kansas.
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 John Lambert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Lambert (General), Parliamentary general in the English Civil War.
John Lambert (Protestant martyr), English Protestant martyred during the reign of Mary I. John Lambert (politician), 19th century New Jersey governor and U.S. senator.
John Lambert (traveler), English painter and author who travelled through Lower Canada and the U.S. from 1806 to 1809.
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 About Major John
General Lambert, commonly called the "Lord Lambert," probably from his having officiated as Lord Chamberlain at the inauguration of the Protector, was born at Calton Hall, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale, the 7th September, 1619.
Lambert was sent to Edinburgh to endeavour to make a final settlement of affairs between England and Scotland, and in 1652 he was appointed by parliament Lord Deputy of Ireland; but on account of some curtailment of the powers he relinquished the appointment.
Lambert being elected as Member for Pontefract, under the title of John Lord Lambert, he was yet again named upon all public committees, and was as active and resolute as ever in defence of the Constitution which had taken so much trouble to establish.
www.familylambert.net /History/maj_john.html   (899 words)

  
 John Lambert
John Lambert, the head of this family, was born in Gargrave, Yorkshire, England, on January 31, 1820.
John Lambert first heard this Latter-day gospel preached by Elder Frances Moon in 1837 and was baptized in October of the same year.
From Kamas, Utah, the descendants of John Lambert have pioneered Uinta, Wasatch and Duchesne Counties.
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 John Lambert 1619-84
Lambert was second-in-command to Cromwell at the battle of Preston in August 1648.
Lambert had already drafted the Instrument of Government — the written constitution that defined Cromwell's powers as Lord Protector — and he came to play a major role in the Protectorate through his energetic participation in key offices and committees.
Lambert also opposed the prosecution of the Quaker James Nayler — who was a former quartermaster in Lambert's regiment — on the grounds that Parliament should not have unlimited judicial powers.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/lambert.htm   (1818 words)

  
 Memoirs of John Lambert
Lambert, not altogether satisfied with what he had heard, desired a friendly conference with the doctor; in the course of which, he proposed several theological points, on which he wished the doctor's opinion, and particularly that relating to the corporeal presence of Christ in the sacrament.
Thus Lambert was under the necessity of defending his propositions before a court of bishops, with Cranmer at their head, by which means his sentiments were published to the whole city, the court, and the country.
Moreover, that Lambert, an obstinate and contumacious heretic, who held the most heretical and blasphemous tenets, and supported them with audacious pertinacity, had thereby subjected himself to the heaviest censures of the canon law, and would prove, by his death, a wholesome example to the nation at large.
apuritansmind.com /Reformation/MemoirsReformers/MemoirsJohnLambert.htm   (1696 words)

  
 John Lambert (General)
John Lambert (1619 - 1694) served as an English Parliamentary general in the English Civil War.
Lambert was now sent with a large force to meet Monck, who was in command of the English forces in Scotland, and either negotiate with him or force him to terms.
On the Restoration Lambert was exempted from danger of life by an address of both Houses to the king, but the next parliament (1662) charged him with high treason.
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 The Lambert Surname   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lamberts go back to before 1663 in the Southern Colonies, and Lamberts were prominent in New Jersey as well.
The objectives of the Lambert DNA Project are to use DNA analysis to establish links between the various American branches, to locate British sources of the American Lamberts, and to learn the extent of relationships among the English, Irish, Belgian, German, and French Lamberts.
Acadian Lamberts are known to have gone to Charleston (Charles Town) in the 18th century.
www.chem.northwestern.edu /~lambert/dna/surname.htm   (1416 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Lambert (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He fought in the first civil war (1642–46) and assisted Henry Ireton in drawing up the Heads of the Proposals in 1647.
He played a leading role in drafting the Instrument of Government (1653), by which Oliver Cromwell became protector, but broke with Cromwell over the latter's acceptance of the Humble Petition and Advice.
At the fall of Richard Cromwell (1659) Lambert defeated a royalist uprising in Cheshire and assisted in dissolving the Rump Parliament.
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 John Lambert (Protestant martyr) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born John Nicholson in Norwich and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.
He was made a fellow there on the nomination of Catherine of Aragon.
John Foxe suggests that Thomas Cromwell, who as vice-regent condemned him, also asked his pardon before he was consigned to the flames as a Marian martyr.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lambert_(Protestant_martyr)   (213 words)

  
 Deltoid » John Lott’s unethical conduct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Lott has claimed that he conducted a survey over three months in 1997 that found that in 98% of defensive gun uses the defender merely has to brandish the gun to break off an attack.
John Lott’s favourite example of the “Bias Against Guns” is the story of the shootings at the Appalachian School of Law.
Lott performed a superficial analysis of the news stories about the shootings and found that very few of the stories mentioned the fact that two of the students involved in apprehending the killer were armed.
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 JOHN S LAMBERT
John went on to serve in occupation of Japan.
John later returned to Guam, for the third time, only this time as a heavy equipment operator while working as a civil service.
John “retired” by joining his wife Clarice in running a business of farming ten acres of peaches and walnuts, selling to Del Monte corp. and local distributors.
www.olypen.com /lastman/Llambert.htm   (228 words)

  
 Uninews - News and Events - The University of Newcastle, Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of John's most endearing qualities was the possession of an open enquiring mind - he was interested in, and knowledgeable about, all manner of things.
When John retired as Director of the Computing Centre the CLLC was quick to take advantage of his interest in our work and secured his services as a part-time programmer.
John was so full of life that his sudden death in May 2001 took me totally by surprise.
www.newcastle.edu.au /news/uninews/april02/lambert.html   (770 words)

  
 LAMBERT, JOHN (1619-1694) - Online Information article about LAMBERT, JOHN (1619-1694)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the 12th the parliament resigned its powers into Cromwell's hands, and on the r3th Lambert obtained the consent of the officers to the Instrument of Government (q.v.), in the framing of which he had taken a leading part.
Fleetwood and Lambert waited on the protector, and begged him to put a stop to the proceedings.
Lenthall in May inviting the return of the Rump, which led to the tame retirement of Richard Cromwell into obscurity; and he was appointed a member of the committee of safety and of the council of state.
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 Stonycreek Township Biographies
The Lamberts were among those who encountered and endured the trials and hardships incident to all early settlements, paving the way for advancing civilization and progress.
John, who settled in Stony Creek, married Mary Statler, and was the father of Samuel, Jacob, John, Moses, Mary and Catherine (Kimmel)— the latter still living.
John Musser, who was born in Lancaster county in 1753, was a mailcarrier during the revolution.
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 LambertBio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lambert was born in New Windsor, MD. He and  his wife, Dorothy, grew up, went to high school, and got  married in Thurmont, MD.  Their ashes have been scattered on the family plot in the cemetery at the top of Altamont Avenue, Thurmont..
Lambert, as a hybridizer,  was a meticulous record-keeper.
Lambert registered more than 500 daylilies.  The first two  Lambert daylilies  were introduced in 1961.  Over the years there were peaks and valleys in  the numbers introduced  but  most often ranged from twelve to twenty introductions per year.  In  1990, at the time of  his retirement,  however,  more than 50 daylilies were introduced.
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 H-Net Review: Barry Coward on John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684
Charles Fleetwood and John Desborough, for example, remain fairly shadowy figures in comparison with Cromwell, as does John Lambert, who was without doubt the second most important man in the regime until 1657.
When Lambert was born in 1619, his father, Josiah, was in serious financial difficulties that threatened to imperil the Lambert's standing as a solid Yorkshire gentry family.
In 1638 his son John Lambert married Frances, the daughter of John Lister, and Farr is at his most persuasive when he argues that these personal and kinship networks were enormously influential in shaping the public career of John Lambert.
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 John Lambert
John Lambert was born in Yorkshire in 1619.
Lambert was opposed to Cromwell being appointed Lord Protector.
Lambert attempted to arouse resistance to the restoration of the monarchy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUlambert.htm   (361 words)

  
 Pool & Spa News: The artist: John Lambert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lambert, who founded A-1 Fiberglass in 1980, consulted with the homeowner, a heart surgeon, before developing the $85,000 backyard project in conjunction with landscape architect Rhymes Oliver.
Lambert and his team obtained red bricks from a local company to balance the coloring of the home.
The waterfeature works on a separate, automated pump that creates either a "trickle or a big waterfall sound." The vanishing edge, which is most effective when viewed from the first level of the yard, is accented by a 3-foot statue of a woman arching her back.
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 History - Charles John Lambert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles John was the oldest son of Charles Lambert and Mary Alice Cannon and was born in Nauvoo during the stirring days of the martyrdom of the prophet, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum.
The visitor had hardly left the house after a brief call when the mother expressed the firm conviction that she felt that he was a servant of God, although he had not then made known the fact that he was a missionary or explained the gospel.
Charles Lambert was also born in England, embraced the gospel in 1843 and came to Nauvoo in 1844.
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 Virtutech Names John Lambert Chief Executive Officer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is an exciting time for Virtutech as the leader in the burgeoning marketplace of software-based simulation,” said John Lambert, president and CEO of Virtutech.
Lambert joins Virtutech from Moonlight Systems, a start up focusing on enterprise-IT software for data center automation solutions, where he served as president and CEO from 2003 until its acquisition by PatchLink Corporation.
Lambert was an early-stage employee at Rational Software, where he served in a variety of sales and engineering management roles for 15 years in both the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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 John J. Lambert, O.S.A. (1909-1994)
John Joseph Lambert was born February 19, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois to Francis C. and Virginia (Longton) Lambert.
Father Lambert taught at Augustinian Academy, St. Louis, from 1968 to 1972.
Father Lambert is remembered for his easy-going and cheerful personality, the hallmarks of his Augustinian religious life.
www.midwestaugustinians.org /death/newslambert.html   (350 words)

  
 Pepys' Diary: Lambert, Maj.-Gen. John
A plan was proposed to which she and the General lent themselves, for the marriage of their daughter to Charles II’s brother, the Duke of York, as part of a process by which Lambert, if he became chief magistrate of the Republic, would restore the King to the throne.
John Lambert was one of the last warriors for “the Good Old Cause”, and the man of the noble ideals.
John Lambert, the man of glory and misery, has finished his remarkable life in prison.
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 Chiron Appoints John A. Lambert as President, Chiron Vaccines
Lambert will be responsible for the commercial operations of Chiron's global vaccine business.
"John's international background and extensive experience in vaccines development and marketing will contribute to the continuing growth and performance of the vaccine business." John Lambert brings substantial worldwide vaccines experience to the position.
Lambert also spent seven years, from 1987-1994, with the Pasteur Merieux Connaught Group in increasing levels of responsibility, including Managing Director, Merieux UK Ltd. Chiron Corporation's global vaccines business, Chiron Vaccines, and its affiliated subsidiaries (Chiron-Behring in Germany and Chiron SpA in Italy), has more than 30 vaccine products on the worldwide market.
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