BLACKWELL, Sir Lambert (d. 1727), of St. James’s, Westminster and Sprowston Hall, Norf.

Family and Education

s. of John Blackwell, Grocer, of Bethnal Green, Mdx. and Mortlake, Surr. by his 2nd w. da. of Gen. John Lambert† of Calton, nr. Malham Tarn, Yorks. and Wimbledon, Surr. m. 17 Aug. 1697, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Joseph Herne*, 1s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.). Kntd. 23 Apr. 1697; cr. Bt. 16 July 1718. PCC 285 Farrant; J. R. Woodhead, Rulers of London (London and Mdx. Arch. Soc.), 32; G. E. Aylmer, State’s Servants, 244; Massachusetts Hist. Colls. ser. 3, i. 63; CSP Dom. 1697, p. 321; True and Exact Inventory . . . Sir Lambert Blackwell (1721), pp. 11, 22.

Offices Held

Member, Levant Co. 1672–?d.; director, S. Sea Co. 1715–21. Info. from Prof. R. Walcott; J. Carswell, S. Sea Bubble, 274.

Consul at Florence 1688–90, at Leghorn 1689–96, 1697–1705; agent for prizes and for droits and perquisites of Admiralty at Leghorn 1689–96, 1702–5; envoy extraordinary to Tuscany 1689–90, 1697–1705, to Genoa 1697–8, 1702–5, to Venice Feb.– Mar. 1702; surveyor-gen. of agents for prizes 1697; knight harbinger 1697–1701. Carswell, 274; Luttrell, Brief Relation, i. 603; iv. 248; Add. 28910, ff. 421–2; Cal. Treas. Bks. xi. 232; xii. 286; xvii. 1025; xix. 199, 483; xx. 590; xxi. 421; Cal. Treas. Pprs. 1702–7, p. 152; 1714–19, p. 89.

Sheriff, Norf. 1719–20.

Parlimentarian

BLACKWELL, Sir Lambert (d. 1727), of St. James’s, Westminster and Sprowston Hall, Norf.

Main residences: St. James’s, Westminster; Sprowston Hall, Norf.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

BLACKWELL, Sir Lambert (d.1727)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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