Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 26 - Lambert
Lambert, Baronet. — Jean Lambert, an advocate, settled in the Island of Rhè, was a naturalized Frenchman, but a native of Devonshire. He had a son, Jean, a merchant, who, through the friendship of the Governor of the Island, was unmolested by the Romish persecutors, but sent his children to England to prevent their perversion to Popery. He continued to live at St. Martin, in the island of Rhè, till his death in 1702. His eldest son, John (who was born in 1666), thus received his education at Camberwell from 1680 to 1684, and returned to France, but came back to England in 1685 among the Huguenot refugees. We find the following notice of him:— “January 18, 1710, John Lambert, Esq., an eminent French refugee merchant in the city of London, was created a baronet of Great Britain, in consideration of his great services to the government.” — (Pointer’s “Chronological History,” Oxford, 1714.) The above is the date of his receiving the honour of knighthood; it was on the 16th February 1711 (n.s.) that he was made a baronet; his services were the giving of loans to the Queen’s government to the extent of £400,000. Sir John married Madeline, daughter of Benjamin Beuzelin of Rouen, and died in 1723. The title has descended regularly from father to son. Sir Henry Foley Lambert is the present and seventh baronet.