[1] A right-handed batsman and a right-arm off spin bowler,[2] he played 51 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1893 and 1930,[3] including 23 first-class matches,[4] captaining them on 13 occasions.

[5] Born 18 July 1874 in Dublin, Ireland,[2] his parents were Kate (née Barrett) and Thomas Drummond Lambert.

[7] He played against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and I Zingari in 1896 before spending three years out of the Irish team.

[3] He returned to the Irish side in 1899, playing against I Zingari, but then spent a further three years out of the Irish side, returning in 1902[3] for his first first-class match, against London County in May 1902, playing three further first-class matches for Ireland that month, against the MCC, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

He played seven more times for Ireland in the remainder of the decade, including matches against Philadelphia, Scotland, South Africa and Yorkshire.

[3] He continued playing club cricket for another four years, scoring his hundredth hundred for Leinster against Halverstown, during which an opposing bowler was overheard to say to his teammates, "This bloody Lambert just won't quit".

[9] Lambert was also a fine badminton player, representing Ireland internationally,[3] and winning the Irish championship in 1911.