Walter Lamb (classicist)

This article is about the British classicist Sir Walter Lamb. For the American football player, see Walt Lamb.

Sir Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb KCVO (5 January 1882 – 27 March 1961) was a British classical lecturer, author and translator.^[1] He was Secretary of the Royal Academy from 1913 to 1951.^[2]

Lamb in 1931

Born in Adelaide, Australia, ^[2] to the British mathematician Horace Lamb and Elizabeth Foot, his siblings included the painter Henry Lamb and the archaeologist Dorothy Lamb. His nephew was the climatologist Hubert Lamb and his great-nephew was the Liberal Democrat politician Norman Lamb.

He was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO), and on 1 January 1943, a Knight Commander of the Order (KCVO).^[3]

Publications

• The Royal Academy : a short history of its foundation and development by Sir Walter R.M. Lamb (1951)^[4]