Reverend John Lamb
(1825-1880)
18 September 1861

Volume 5, page 70, sitting number 5783. 

Born in Cambridge on 5 October 1825, John Lamb was the son of Rev. Dr. John Lamb, Dean of Bristol and Master of Corpus Chrlsti College, Cambridge.

He was educated at Rugby at at Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1848; MA, 1851). 

He was ordained a deacon in 1850 and a priest in 1851. By the time he sat for Silvy he had become the Senior Fellow of Caius College and the Incumbent of St Edward's, Cambridge. 

 He was the Vicar of St Edward’s 1858-1866 and the Rector of Blofield in Norfolk 1876-1880. 

In 1860 he published the snappily titled The Seven Words Spoken against the Lord Jesus, or, An Investigation of the Motives which Led His Contemporaries to Reject Him. 

On 15 June 1865 he married Emily Mary Ann, daughter of Reverend Charles Borton, Rector of Hartest in Suffolk. 

Reverend John Lamb ‘formerly of Gonville and Caius College in the County of Cambridge but late of the Rectory Blofield in the County of Norfolk’ died on 11 April 1880 at ‘Knap Hill near Woking in the County of Surrey.’ He left an estate valued at £1500.