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Ven. Joseph Lambton

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English martyr, b. 1569; d. at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The day of his death is variously given as 23 June, 23 July, and 27 July, and the year as 1592 and 1593; but from a letter of Lord Huntingdon it is clear he died before 31 July, 1592, and Father Holtby's Stonyhurst manuscript says he died on a Monday, so that the probable date is 24 July, 1592. He was the second son of Thomas Lambton of Malton-in-Rydall, Yorks, and Katharine, daughter of Robert Birkhead of West Brandon, Durham. He arrived at the English College, Reims, in 1584, and at the English College, Rome, in 1589. Being allowed to curtail his theological course, he was ordained priest when only twenty-three, and sent on the mission on 22 April 1592. He was arrested at Newcastle on landing with the Ven. Edward Waterson, and condemned at the next assizes under 27 Eliz., c. 2. He was cut down alive, and the reprieved felon who acted as hangman refused to complete the sentence, which was at last carried out by a Frenchman practicing as a surgeon at Kenton.

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GILLOW, Bibl. Dict.Eng. Cath. (London and New York, 1885-1902), s.v.; Catholic Record Society's Publications (London, 1905-), V, 212, 228, 231, 293; CHALLONER, Missionary Priests, I, 298.

Bibliography Information
Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Ven. Joseph Lambton'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​v/ven-joseph-lambton.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
 
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