James Lamb (orientalist)

[3] He was chaplain to Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton.

[4] He bequeathed many of his books to the library of Westminster Abbey; the Bodleian Library holds manuscripts by him, including a three-volume grammar of Arabic.

[1] Lamb was married to Elizabeth Beeston (daughter of Arthur Bromfield MP and widow of William Beeston MP).

They had no children, but he was step-father to Sir William Beeston, lieutenant-governor of Jamaica,[4] and Henry Beeston, Headmaster of Winchester College and Warden of New College, Oxford.

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