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Brooke Lambert (1834–1901) was an English cleric and social reformer. He played significant roles in the Charity Organisation Society (COS) and the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (MABYS), and as an ally of the settlement movement in London.[1] In 1927, Clara Collet wrote that in Lambert, the reformer Charles Booth "seems to have found a kindred soul".[2]

Early life

He was born at

King's College, London, where he encountered F. D. Maurice and the furore over his 1853 ejection.[1]

Lambert matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1854, graduating B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861, and B.C.L. 1863.[4] He was ordained deacon in 1858, and became a curate later that year at Christ Church, Preston, Lancashire.[1] He was there when he was ordained priest in 1859, by Horatio Powys.[5] In 1860 he moved to a curacy at St John's, Worcester. In 1863, after a short time at Hillingdon, he then took another curacy, with the Rev. Robert Edward Bartlett at St Mark's Church in Whitechapel, London.[1]

Vicar in Whitechapel

Bartlett received preferment in 1865, to the parish of

Goodman's Fields area of east London, between Alie Street and Prescot Street, and was demolished in 1927.[7][8] At the time of its building, an initiative of Charles Blomfield, Whitechapel was a "hotbed of crime" with "one dingy church" for a population of 36,000.[9]

Lambert addressed the social problems he found in Whitechapel in a number of ways. Shortly after he became vicar there was a local outbreak of the

third cholera pandemic, and he was heavily involved in practical help and duties. He made statistical studies of what is now known as the poverty threshold, and these anticipated the work of Charles Booth. He became involved in local government: one of his published sermons, "East-London Pauperism", given in Oxford in 1868, picked out an issue with the human resources on the local boards in Whitechapel.[1][10][11] He did not approve of solutions based on charitable relief.[12]

After five years, however, Lambert's health broke down.[1]

Recuperation

Lambert undertook a sea voyage to the Caribbean, with his friend

W. E. Gladstone.[14]

Vicar of Greenwich

Moving to the Greenwich vicarage in 1880, Lambert played a full part in charity and educational organisation in the large parish for nearly 20 years. In poor health, he made a lengthy African journey from 1899. He died at the vicarage on 25 January 1901, unmarried, was cremated, and his ashes were buried at Shoeburyness.[1]

Voluntary organisations and campaigning

Lambert was for 15 years involved in the

Cremation Society.[16]

The Charity Organisation Society was founded in 1869, and Lambert became a significant early member.

parental rights.[19]

The anonymous pamphlet The Bitter Cry of Outcast London appeared in 1883, written by Andrew Mearns. It caused a public debate on

Samuel Augustus Barnett and others. Lambert contributed to the debate, writing 1883 articles "London Landowners, London Improvements, and the Housing of the Poor" and ""The Outcast Poor. I. Esau's Cry".[20] In 1884 Lambert moved for the formation of a Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages, based on the ideas of Henry Solly.[21]

Associations

Lambert belonged to a group considering that curates should not be treated as "ecclesiastical butlers". It included also his Brasenose contemporary

Russell Wakefield, then at Sydenham.[28]

Lambert was one of a small number of Church of England priests who worked in the most deprived areas of London, in the third quarter of the 19th century—before the social issues reached a peak of attention. Others were John Richard Green, Edwards Comerford Hawkins[29] and Charles Lowder.[30]

John Ruskin met in 1867 with the layman Edward Denison, Green, then at St Philip's, Stepney, and Lambert, to discuss "what could be done for the poor."[31] Lambert's take on a settlement or colony to help Denison's plan was for men to move in, become rate payers, and so strengthen the local boards which were his particular concern.[32] The Methodist John Scott Lidgett, when still young, met with Green and Lambert, and discussed the same topic on the poor.[33]

In 1876

Beatrice Potter).[36]

Works

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34381. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. S2CID 144902456
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  3. ^ Burke, John (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn & Company. p. 1039.
  4. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory. Church House Publishing. 1865. p. 377.
  6. ^ The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England. 1865. p. 168.
  7. ISBN 978-0-7748-4161-0
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  8. ISBN 978-0-85244-546-4
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  9. ISBN 978-0-85244-546-4
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  10. ^ Lambert, Brooke (1871). Pauperism; seven sermons. p. 99.
  11. ISBN 978-1-78168-012-4
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  12. ISBN 978-0-8139-2180-8
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  13. ^ Crockford's (1872). Clerical Directory for 1872. p. 508.
  14. ^ The Biograph and Review. E.W. Allen. 1881. p. 141.
  15. ^ Register: Nos. 1-1000, with Brief Biographical Notices. 1847-1863. J. Farncombe. 1886. p. 40.
  16. ISBN 978-0-691-18093-9
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  17. ISBN 978-1-315-45976-9
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  18. ISBN 978-0-521-89260-5
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  19. ISBN 978-1-84742-668-0
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  20. S2CID 142971036
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  21. ^ Solly, Henry (1893). "These Eighty Years": Or, The Story of an Unfinished Life. Simpkin, Marshall, & Company. p. 554.
  22. ^ a b "Jones, Henry (or Harry) (JNS842HH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  23. ^ "Obituaries from "The Eagle"" (PDF). joh.cam.ac.uk. p. 90.
  24. ^ Jones, Harry (1895). Fifty Years: Or, Dead Leaves and Living Seeds. Smith, Elder, & Company. pp. 21–22.
  25. ISBN 978-0-19-289740-4
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  26. ISBN 978-1-107-02679-7
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  27. ^ Hughes, Thomas (1878). The Old Church: What Shall We Do with It?. Macmillan. p. 167.
  28. ISBN 978-1-317-26592-4
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  29. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  30. ISBN 978-0-415-19324-5
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  31. ISBN 978-1-315-44251-8
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  32. ISBN 978-1-4128-3891-7
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  33. ISBN 978-0-85773-161-6
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  34. ISBN 978-0-09-469380-7
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  35. ^ The Girls' Friendly Society Associates' Journal and Advertiser. Strangeways & Sons. 1883. p. 11.
  36. ISBN 978-0-521-08495-6
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  37. ^ Lambert, Brooke (1871). Pauperism; Seven sermons. Henry Sotheran & Co.
  38. ^ Lambert, Brooke (1902). Sermons and Lectures. H. Richardson.
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