Sir Charles Lamb, 2nd Baronet

Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, 2nd Baronet DCL, known until 1821 as Charles Burges, was a British courtier, writer, and soldier.

Early life

Charles Burges was born on 8 July 1785 at Nantcribba Hall in the parish of Forden in the historic county of Montgomeryshire as Charles Montolieu Burgess. He was the son of James Burges and his wife Anne Montolieu, the third daughter of Lt.-Col. Louis Charles Montolieu, Baron of St Hippolite.
In 1821, when his father took the name of Lamb, Charles Burges became Charles Montolieu Lamb by Royal Licence.

Career

He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ayrshire Yeomanry. Following the death of his father on 1 December 1824, he succeeded as the 2nd Baronet Burges as well as the Knight Marshal of the Royal Household, which he held until the post was abolished in 1846. He held the office of Sheriff of Sussex between 1829 and 1830. He was also a writer.
From 1847 until 1860, Lamb was the Grand Prior of the Order of Saint John in England.

Personal life

On 30 June 1815, he married the widow Lady Mary Montgomerie, a daughter of Gen. Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton and, his second wife, the former Frances Twysden. Her first husband was her cousin, Maj.-Gen. Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie, with whom she had a son, Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton. Before her death, they were the parents of:

Charles James Savile Montgomerie Lamb, who married Anne Charlotte Grey, a daughter of Arthur Grey. After his death, she married Comte Henry-Antoine de Chasseloup-Laubat.

On 28 October 1853, Sir Charles married Frances Margesson, daughter of Rev. William Margesson, rector of Watlington, and the former Mary Frances Cooke, at Geneva, Switzerland. Her sister, Julia Helena Webster, was the wife of Sir Frederick Webster.
Sir Charles died on 21 March 1860 at age 74 at Beauport Park, near Hastings, East Sussex. As his son predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Archibald. His widow, Lady Lamb, died in 1884.

Descendants

Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Mary Montgomerie Lamb, a poet under the pen-name Violet Fane who was the wife of Henry Sydenham Singleton and Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie, and Sir Archibald Lamb, 3rd Baronet, who married Louisa Mary Caroline Durrant.