Robert Lamb (bishop)

Robert Lamb (c.1703 - 3 Nov 1769) was an English churchman, bishop of Peterborough from 1764.

Life

He was son of Matthew Lamb of London, and nephew of Peniston Lamb, who left him a fortune, as did his father, a prosperous attorney.^[1] He was educated at Enfield, Middlesex under Robert Uvedale, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1721. He graduated LL.B. in 1726 and LL.D. in 1728

He was ordained in 1727, and became vicar of Hather and Keelby, in Lincolnshire, 1727. He was Dean of Peterborough from 1744 to 1764.^[2] He was rector of Peakirk with Glinton, Northamptonshire, from 1747 to 1763, and then of Hatfield, Hertfordshire from 1763. In 1758 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was elected Bishop of Peterborough in 1764.^[3] He died at Hatfield rectory and was buried there. He was unmarried, and his younger brother Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet of Brocket Hall inherited his estate.

References

"Lamb, Robert (LM721R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Notes

↑ George R. Taylor, English Political Portraits of the Nineteenth Century (1977), pp. 104-5.
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35339
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35338

Church of England titles
Preceded by Richard Terrick	Bishop of Peterborough 1764–1769	Succeeded by John Hinchliffe

Deans of Peterborough

Early modern	Francis Alree/Abree/Leycester Gerard Carleton James Curthoppe John Boxall William Latymer Richard Fletcher Thomas Nevile John Palmer Richard Clayton George Meriton Henry Beaumont William Piers John Towers Thomas Jackson John Cosin Edward Rainbowe James Duport Simon Patrick Richard Kidder Samuel Freeman White Kennett Richard Reynolds Edward Gee John Mandeville Francis Lockier John Thomas Robert Lamb Charles Tarrant Charles Manners-Sutton Peter Peckard

Late modern	Thomas Kipling James Monk Thomas Turton George Butler Augustus Saunders John Perowne Marsham Argles William Ingram William Barlow Arnold Page James Simpson Noel Christopherson Dick Wingfield-Digby Randolph Wise Michael Bunker Charles Taylor Jonathan Baker (Acting)

Diocese of Peterborough

Peterborough Cathedral Bishop's Lodging, The Palace, Peterborough The Palace, Peterborough

Office holders	Donald Allister, Bishop of Peterborough John Holbrook, Bishop suffragan of Brixworth AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough Jonathan Baker, Acting Dean of Peterborough Christine Allsopp, Archdeacon of Northampton Gordon Steele, Archdeacon of Oakham

Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Leicester (1888–1927; Diocese of Leicester erected) Archdeacon of Leicester (1837–1926; became Diocese of Leicester) Archdeacon of Loughborough (1921–1926; became Diocese of Leicester)

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