Antiquarian, lawyer, politician and writer. His name was also spelt Lambarde. Born London, he studied law at Lincoln's Inn, wrote the 'Perambulation of Kent', (the first English county history) and probably served as Member of Parliament for Aldborough in the Parliament of 1563–1567. In 1576 he founded the Queen Elizabeth College Almshouses in Greenwich. Appointed Keeper of the Rolls in 1597.
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William Lambard
{Beneath the crest of William Lambard:} The College of Queen Elizabeth founde...
Archaeologist. Born at 13 Southwold Road, Hackney. He was one of the first modern archaeologists, who excavated in a methodical way, keeping careful records, and using them to reconstruct ancient l...
We can find no information but assume this is/was a group created to protect the heritage of St John's Wood.
Oddly with a contact address in Oxfordshire, this association does a splendid job keeping the story of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 alive.
The society's website doesn't specify when it came into existence. It contains a number of 'journals', the oldest of which is dated 1980, so maybe it dates from then.
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