Sir James Lamb, 1st Baronet

[1] His father had distinguished himself at the Battle of Culloden by capturing the standard of Charles Edward Stewart and was later deputy paymaster in Gibraltar.

[2] He went to Westminster School and then entered University College, Oxford, in 1770 before studying law at Lincoln's Inn in 1773.

He then served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1789 and 1795 before becoming a baronet on 21 October 1795[3] and knight marshal of his majesty's household in November of the same year,[4][5] where he played an important role in the coronation of George IV.

He wrote an introduction for William Henry Ireland's Shakespearian forgery and Thomas Dermody stole money from him.

His second marriage to Anne, third daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Charles Montolieu, Baron of St Hippolite produced the following children.