Nannie Lambert Power O'Donoghue (1843–12 January 1940) was an Irish poet, equestrian, journalist, novelist, musician and social activist.
Lambert was the youngest child in the family of Charles Lambert of Athenry, and a member of a well-known landlord family of County Galway. She married William Power O'Donoghue and became '"a highly respected journalist as well as an accomplished equestrian. One of her volumes, Riding for Ladies, was translated into five languages and over 94,000 copies were printed. Her novel, A Beggar on Horseback, sold over 23,000 copies. In her capacity as a journalist, Nannie contributed prose pieces to a variety of newspapers." Her articles often concerned social issues and animal welfare.
Her death notice in The Irish Times called for "No flowers, no mourning, help the poor instead."
John Lambert of Creg Clare, fl. 1645-after 1669.
=Redish Lynch, daughter of Thomas Lynch, Mayor of Galway =Mary French
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Mary Joseph of Mayo Charles Lambert of Creg Clare, k. Derry, 1689.
=Robert French of Rashane =Janet Taylor of Ballymacragh (Castle Taylor)
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Walter Lambert of Creg Clare
=Miss Hamilton =Sybilla Martyn of Tullira
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Charles John Peter, d. 1836. Thomas Belinda Ms. Lambert
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Walter Peter Lambert of Castle Ellen. Sabina Lambert
=Ellen Tubbs =Thomas Mahon of Belleville, Co. Galway.
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Peter, 1785-1844. Charles, b. 1804.
=Eleanor Seymour =Maria Louisa Caroll =Jane Catherine Irwin of Oakfield, County Sligo.
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Isabella Louisa Maria, 1837-1904 Nannie, 1843–1940
=Edward Henry Carson =Henry Jenkins Stavely Bowdler =William Power O'Donoghue
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Edward Carson
