Robert Lamb (bishop)

English churchman

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

## Life

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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 that year was appointed vicar of Hather and of Keelby, in Lincolnshire. 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

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

## Notes

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1. ^ George R. Taylor, English Political Portraits of the Nineteenth Century (1977), pp. 104-5.
2. ^ "Deans | British History Online".
3. ^ "Bishops | British History Online".

Church of England titles

Preceded by

Richard Terrick

|  Bishop of Peterborough
1764–1769  | Succeeded by

John Hinchliffe

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Deans of Peterborough

Early modern|

* Francis Leycester
* Gerard Carleton
* James Curthroppe
* 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 Henry 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)
* Tim Sledge (withdrew)
* Tim Alban Jones (Acting)
* Chris Dalliston

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Diocese of Peterborough

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

Office holders|

* Debbie Sellin, Bishop of Peterborough
* John Holbrook, Bishop of Brixworth
* AEO: Luke Irvine-Capel, Bishop suffragan of Richborough & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet
* Chris Dalliston, Dean of Peterborough
* Richard Ormston, Archdeacon of Northampton
* Alison Booker, 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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