James Lamb

Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon, 2 Febr. 1598, bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll, was a Communer for a time of Brasn. Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615, and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton, and after the Kings restoration in 1660, he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall, but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London. He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing, was a sententious and acute Preacher, and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages. He hath written,

Grammatica Arabica. In 3. vol. in qu.

Danielis Prophetiae Liber, Syriace. In one vol. qu.

Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia, formâ oblonga. In 4. vol. oct.

Flexio Verborum Arabicorum. In one octavo. All which are written with his own hand, and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library. He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four, and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster, 1664. near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit, and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton, on the twentieth day of Octob.