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Name: LAMBERT, Archie Fox
Nee: brother of Henry McLaren Lambert and Reginald Everitt Lambert
Birth Date: 1884 Battle, E. Sussex
Death Date: 15 May 1914 Nairobi, of typhoid
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1914
Profession: Partner with F.O.B. Wilson and Frank Joyce. Died of enteric.
Area: Kilima, Kiu, and Ulu
Married: No
Book Reference: HBEA, Last Chance, Nellie, Cranworth, Hut, Land, Gazette, Nicholls, Eton, Barnes, Red Book 1912
School: Eton 1898-1903
General Information:
Captain of Cricket at Eton.
Cranworth - a fine athlete, having kept the Field and been in the eleven at Eton ......... enjoyed the same popularity in the Colony as he had acquired at Eton. His untimely death from typhoid was deeply felt by all his friends and by none more than ourselves.
Land - 1911 - W.A.F. Lambert and F.O.B. Wilson - Agriculture and grazing, 1000.77 acres - Ulu District - 27/2/11 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 2 to 99 years from 1/4/11 - Registered 29/6/11
Gazette - 10/2/15 - Archie Fox Lambert of Kilima Kiu died 15/5/1914 at Nairobi
Nicholls - All Saints Cathedral - The lower portion of a tower was added in 1922 to house a peal of bells given in memory of Henry Maclaren Lambert (killed on active service on 13 May 1915) and his brother Archie Fox Lambert (killed on active service 2 days later [wrong]), who farmed ostriches on the Athi plains.
Eton (1909) - Eton XI 1903, played against Winchester 1902; Opp. and Mixed Wall and Field Xis 1901-2; Keeper of Mixed Wall 1902; Keeper of the Field 1902; won School Steeplechase 1902-3; Master of the Beagles 1903. Died unmarried from enteric at Nairobi May 15, 1914
Red Book 1912 - A.F. Lambert - Machakos
Web - Master of the Eton College Hunt 1902-03. Archie Lambert was a fine runner, and won the School Steeplechase, and was a good Master. He was a great athlete, kept the Field in which XI. I played myself in 1902, and was also in the Cricket XI. He died in E. Africa ; no better fellow ever lived.
FindaGrave Archibald Fox LAMBERT BIRTH 1886 DEATH 14 May 1914 (aged 27–28) BURIAL Nairobi South Cemetery Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. Kilima Kiu, Ulu. Died of enteric fever and toxaemia. Buried 15 May 1914. Inscription: Archie Fox Lambert / died May 1914