The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Lamb, Edward William

by Philip Mennell

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Lamb, Edward William, sometime Secretary of Lands, Queensland, second son of John Lamb, M.L.C., of New South Wales (formerly Commander R.N.) and Emma his wife, daughter of John Robinson of London, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and Secretary for Lands in the administration of Mr. (afterwards Sir) R. R. Mackenzie, from August 1867 to Sept. 1868. In this capacity he passed the Crown Lands Alienation Act.