LAMBERT, John, English soldier: b. Kirkby Malhamdale, Yorkshire, 7 Nov. 1619; d. 1683. He entered the army and had at tained the rank of colonel in 1644, when he fought against the king at the battle of Mar ston Moor. He assisted Ireton in drawing up the "Heads of the Proposals' in 1647; was a brave, chivalrous and able soldier and the idol of the army, holding a place second only to Cromwell, was generous in his treatment of Royalist prisoners and took no part in the measures leading up to the execution of the king. He accompanied Cromwell into Scot land in 1650, specially distinguished himself at Dunbar and Worcester, and took the lead in the council of officers who gave the Protectorate to Cromwell. He subsequently opposed the Protector and was deprived by Cromwell, of all his commissions, though a pension of f2,000 was allowed him for past services. When Richard attempted to assume the Protectorate Lambert came forward and became the head of the Fifth Monarchy Men, or extreme Re publicans. In August 1659 he suppressed a
dangerous Royalist rising at Chester, in the same year was member of Parliament for Pontefract, dismissed the °Rump" Parliament, governing with the aid of Council of Public Safety. In order to detach him from the Com monwealth suggestions were made by Royal ists for a marriage between Prince Charles or his brother the Duke of York and his daughter. In 1660 he set out for the north to encounter Monk, but was deserted by his troops, seized and committed to the Tower, whence he soon escaped, again attempted to gather troops and was again arrested. At the Restoration he was excepted from the act of indemnity, brought to trial and condemned in 1662, but his sentence was commuted to banishment to Guernsey, from whence he was removed to Drake's Island, Plymouth Sound.