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There have been two baronetcies held by people with the surname Lamb, both in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Both creations are extinct.

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The Lamb Baronetcy, of Brocket Hall in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 17 January 1755. For more information on this creation, see Viscount Melbourne.

Brocket Hall country house in Hertfordshire, England

Brocket Hall is a Grade I-listed classical country house set in a large park at the northern end of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate is equipped with two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house.

Viscount Melbourne

Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the Lamb family.

The Burges, later Lamb Baronetcy, of Burghfield in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 21 October 1795 for the poet and politician James Burges. [1] He married as his first wife Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Edward Noel, 1st Viscount Wentworth and Judith Lamb, daughter of William Lamb. In 1821 he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Lamb in lieu of his patronymic. He was succeeded by his son by his second wife Anne Montolieu, Charles, the second Baronet. He was Knight Marshal of the Royal Household between 1824 and 1864. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1948.

Burghfield village in the United Kingdom

Burghfield is a village and large civil parish in West Berkshire, England, with a boundary with Reading. Burghfield can trace its history back to before the Domesday book, and was once home to three manors: Burghfield Regis, Burghfield Abbas and Sheffield. Since the 1980s the population of Burghfield has nearly doubled with the construction of many new housing estates, dependent for its employment on, for instance, Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke and M4 corridor which bisects the edge of the area.

Sir James Lamb, 1st Baronet British author, barrister and Member of Parliament

Sir James Bland Lamb, 1st Baronet, born James Burges and known as Sir James Burges, Bt, between 1795 and 1821, was a British author, barrister and Member of Parliament.

Knight Marshal

The Knight Marshal is a former office in the British Royal Household established by King Henry III in 1236. The position later became a Deputy to the Earl Marshal from the reign of Henry VIII until the office was abolished in 1846.

Lamb baronets, of Brocket Hall (1755)

Burges, later Lamb baronets, of Burghfield (1795)

The Burges family settled near Reading during the reign of Henry VIII; the surname is claimed to derive from Bruges in Flanders. Colonel Roger Burges held the town of Faringdon for the king during the English Civil War (1642–1651) and was later captured at the Battle of Naseby. After his release he became commander of Castle Cornet, the last Royalist garrison to surrender to Cromwell after the 1651 Battle of Worcester. He was eventually succeeded by George Burges (1723-1786) who was military secretary and aide-de-camp to Major General Humphrey Bland. At the 1746 Battle of Culloden, Burges captured the standard of Charles Edward Stuart. He later became receiver-general of the salt duties and comptroller the customs of Scotland. By his 1748 marriage to Anne Wichnour, daughter of James Somerville, 13th Lord Somerville, he was the father of the first baronet, James Burges, who legally changed his name to James Bland Lamb by Royal Licence in 1821. [2]

Reading, Berkshire Place in England

Reading is a large minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is now the county town. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway. Reading is 70 miles (110 km) east of Bristol, 24 miles (39 km) south of Oxford, 40 miles (64 km) west of London, 14 miles (23 km) north of Basingstoke, 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Maidenhead and 15 miles (24 km) east of Newbury as the crow flies.

Bruges Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium

Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.

Faringdon town in Oxfordshire

Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. Within the historic boundaries of Berkshire, it is 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Oxford, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Wantage and 12 miles (19 km) east-northeast of Swindon. It is a large parish, its lowest parts extending to the River Thames in the north and its highest ground reaching the Ridgeway in the south.

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References

  1. ↑ "No. 13823". The London Gazette . 17 October 1795. p. 1074.
  2. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Harrison.

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