Allegiance United Kingdom Died October 11, 1936 Rank Major general Role British Army officer Service/branch British Army | Name William Lambton Awards Order of the Bath Years of service 1884 - 1920 Education Eton College | |
Commands held 1st Bn Coldstream Guards
4th Division Battles/wars Mahdist War
Second Boer War
First World War Battles and wars Mahdist War, Second Boer War, World War I | ||
Major-General The Hon. Sir William Lambton KCB CMG CVO DSO (4 December 1863 – 11 October 1936) was a British Army officer who commanded 4th Division during the First World War.
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Military career
Born the son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham and educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Lambton was commissioned a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in February 1884. He was promoted captain on 18 May 1892, and became aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Ireland in 1895, before he served with the Egyptian Army. He took part in the Nile expedition of 1898 and fought at the Battle of Atbara and the Battle of Omdurman, and was promoted to major on 29 September 1898. He served as Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal in the early part of the Second Boer War, and was Military Secretary to Lord Milner, High-Commissioner for Souther Africa, from December 1900, with the local rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Coldstream Guards in 1912, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General for London District in 1913 and Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the European War before becoming General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1915. He retired in 1920.
Family
In 1921 he married Lady Katherine de Vere Somerset, née Beauclerk, daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans; they had no children.