Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer to Rathmines Urban District Council from 1923 until 1930. William Hamilton Lambert, a son of Thomas Drummond Lambert, veterinary surgeon of Dublin, and his wife Kate Selina, was born in Dublin in on 31 July 1879.(1)   He studied engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the BAI degree in 1904.(2) He became an assistant to WILLIAM ROBERT STEPHENS WILLIAM ROBERT STEPHENS , engineer to Rathmines Urban District Council, and succeeded him in 1923. He held the post until the passing of the Local Government Act of 1930, when Rathmines was amalgamated with the city of Dublin.  He died on 24 February 1953 and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery.(3)

ICEI: elected associate member, 1920; elected member by 1928.

Address: 102 Rathmines Road, 1911;  Mount Anthony, Ardee Road, Rathmines, <=1922->=1943.



References

All information not otherwise attributed ins from Thom's directories and from ICEI membership lists in TICEI and Thom's directories.

(1) Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives (www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives). Headstones: DUBLIN, Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, Part 3. (information from Yvonne Russell, Feb 2011).
(2) R.C. Cox, compiler, Trinity College School of Engineering: 'Graduates' in Engineering 1843-1992 (1993), unpaginated.
(3) See note 1, above.