Lieutenant-Colonel William Lambton FRS (c. 1753 – 20 or 26 January 1823) was a British soldier, surveyor, and geographer who began a triangulation survey...
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The Red Boy (redirect from Master Lambton)
its subject, Charles William Lambton, who was the elder son of John Lambton (later created Earl of Durham). Charles William Lambton was born 16 January...
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The Lambton Worm is a legend from County Durham in North-East England in the United Kingdom. The story takes place around the River Wear, and is one of...
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photographer and broadcaster William Henry Lambton (1764–1797), a British Member of Parliament William Lambton (c.1756–1823), surveyor Lambton, New South Wales,...
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Earl of Durham (redirect from Lord Lambton)
Sir William Lambton (1863–1936), sixth son of the second Earl, was a Major-General in the Army. The ancestral seats of the Lambton family are Lambton Castle...
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scientific precision. It was begun in 1802 by the British infantry officer William Lambton, under the auspices of the East India Company. Under the leadership...
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He was eventually made an assistant to William Lambton on the Great Trigonometric Survey, and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823...
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William Henry Lambton (1764–1797) was a British member of Parliament (MP) who represented the City of Durham in the House of Commons. He was the son of...
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Henry Lambton (son of Colonel Sir William Lambton) and Mary Davison (daughter of Sir Alexander Davison of Blakiston). Lambton had a brother, William. Lambton...
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nineteenth-century liberal spirit." Lambton was born 12 April 1792 in the house of his father William Henry Lambton at 14 Berkeley Square in St George...
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William Lambton (1640–1724) of New Lambton in County Durham was an English politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685...
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Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (19 June 1855 – 31 January 1929) was a British hereditary peer and a Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) politician...
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Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1852) was started by British surveyor Col. William Lambton on 10 April 1802, heading from St. Thomas Mount in Chennai to the foothills...
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D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham (5 September 1828 – 27 November 1879), styled Viscount Lambton from 1833 to 1840, was a British peer. Lambton was born...
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Sir William Bowes (6 January 1657 – 16 January 1707) was a British landowner and M.P. Sir William Bowes Kt. of Streatlam Castle was educated at Trinity...
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Lambton Quay (once known as The Beach) is the heart of the central business district of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Originally, as the...
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Major General Sir William Lambton, KCB, CMG, CVO, DSO (4 December 1863 – 11 October 1936) was a British Army officer who commanded the 4th Division during...
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Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort and secondly, Major-General Sir William Lambton, son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham. Lady Alexandra de Vere Beauclerk (5...
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Braddock 1753–1755: Hedworth Lambton 1755–1762: The Hon. Bennet Noel 1762–1762: Maj. Gen. Julius Caesar 1762–1763: William A'Court 1763–1777: John Thomas...
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William Lambton (2 December 1914 – 16 September 1976) was an English football player and manager. He played in goal for Nottingham Forest, Exeter City...
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George Godolphin Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds and Lady Katherine Frances Lambton. He succeeded to the title of 11th Duke of Leeds and its subsidiary titles...
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attorney to the Bishop of Durham. In 1724 he succeeded his uncle William Lambton, MP, at Lambton to an estate which had been held by his family for over 400...
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Calmady, daughters of Charles Calmady, and that of Master Charles William Lambton, painted for his father Lord Durham for 600 guineas and known as The...
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were used by Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India Colonel William Lambton as sites for his theodolite. The survey, commissioned by the East India...
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John Frederick Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham (7 October 1884 – 4 February 1970), briefly styled Viscount Lambton between 1928 and 1929, was a British hereditary...
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suffering from leprosy, was born in Hinganghat on 24 December 1914. William Lambton, a British soldier, surveyor, and geographer, died in Hinganghat on...
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William Henry Lambton of Lambton (1764–1797), who succeeded him as MP for Durham City and father of the First Earl of Durham Susan Mary Anne Lambton,...
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languages. Around the same time, the trigonometric survey was proposed by William Lambton but there was little collaboration between the two during the Mysore...
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Sefton and party returning from hunting", in 1842 "The death of Sir William Lambton at the Battle of Marston Moor" (1842; Harris Museum and Art Gallery...
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methods of William Lambton in his proposed trigonometrical survey. His opposition had to be neutralized by Sir Nevil Maskelyne before Lambton's plan was...
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