Oliver Lambart, 1st Lord Lambart, Baron of Cavan (died June 1618) was a military commander and an MP in the

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. He was Governor of

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in 1601. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (Ireland) in 1603. He was also an English MP, for

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1597. He is buried in

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Biography

Military

Fighting the Spanish, Lambart took part in the Dutch campaign under his commander

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: he was wounded in the assault on Steenwijk which led to its capture in 1592. On 20 June 1596,

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and Effingham sacked the harbour of

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. The Spanish scuttled their Indies fleet including a cargo of 12 million

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s. The force occupied the city until 5 July. Lambart was knighted for his part in the looting. During the

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(1594–1603) Lambart served in Essex's Irish campaign of 1599. He commanded the 200 Foot at

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. On 6 January 1615, he retook

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, with the assistance of Sir John Campbell of Calder.''Trevelyan Papers'', vol. 3 (London, 1872), 132, 136–7.
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Politics

He was in 1613 elected one of two MPs for

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, sitting from 1613 to 1615. He was created 1st Lord Lambart, Baron of Cavan,

shortly before his death.

Family

His son was

Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan (c. March 1600 – 25 June 1660) was an Anglo-Irish Cavalier, Royalist soldier and peer. Lambart was the son of Oliver Lambart, 1st Baron Lambart and Hester Fleetwood. He served as the Member of Parliament fo ...

References

thePeerage.com
1618 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cavan constituencies Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by James I Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Burials at Westminster Abbey English military personnel of the Nine Years' War 16th-century Irish politicians 17th-century Irish military personnel High sheriffs of Cavan Year of birth unknown English MPs 1597–1598 Irish MPs 1613–1615 16th-century Irish military personnel {{Ireland-baron-stub