Sydney Lambert

Sydney Chowne Lambert was a New Zealand sportsman. He played three first-class cricket matches for Otago [cricket team|Otago] in the 1873–74 and 1874–75 seasons and umpired cricket in the Wellington area.
Lambert was born at sea in 1852 and was educated at Otago [Boys' High School] in Dunedin and Christ's College in Christchurch. He played three first-class matches for Otago, two in the 1873–74 season and one the following season. Primarily a bowler, he took three first-class wickets, all of them in a January 1874 fixture against Canterbury for the cost of four runs.
Lambert worked as a government clerk in Wellington, at the time of this death working in the Land and Income Tax Department. He was a prominent lawn bowler in later life. He died suddenly at Wellington in 1916 at the age of 63.