| Sir George Lambert | |
| Birth Date: | 8 September 1795[1] |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Branch: | Royal Navy |
| Serviceyears: | 1809–1864 |
| Rank: | Admiral |
| Commands: | HMS Alligator HMS Endymion HMS Imaum HMS Fox Nore Command |
| Battles: | Second Anglo-Burmese War |
| Awards: | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Admiral Sir George Robert Lambert (8 September 1795 – 5 June 1869) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
Lambert was the son of Captain Robert Alexander Lambert RN,[2] himself the second son of Sir John Lambert, 2nd Baronet. His elder brother was General Sir John Lambert, and his younger brother was Captain Henry Lambert.[3]
Lambert joined the Royal Navy in 1809.[4] Promoted to captain in 1825, he commanded HMS Alligator, HMS Endymion, HMS Imaum and then HMS Fox.[4] In 1852, in HMS Fox, he was dispatched to Burma to deal with some infringements of the Treaty of Yandabo. Lambert, described by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of India, in a private letter as the "combustible commodore",[5] eventually provoked a naval confrontation in extremely questionable circumstances by blockading the port of Rangoon and thus started the Second Anglo-Burmese War which ended in the British annexing the province of Pegu and renaming it Lower Burma.[6]
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1863 and retired in 1864.[4]