William Lambe

(1765-1847)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lambe, William, 1765-1847 DNB: Lambe, William (1765–1847), physician and vegetarian LBT ID: WiLambe1847 VIAF ID: 26152093 LOC ID: n88100950	B/BAP: 1765-02-26 DIED: 1847-06-11
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Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he was a physician in Warwick, where he knew Samuel Parr, and from 1804 in London, where he was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was an advocate for vegetarianism and acquaintance of Shelley and Keats.