Sir Lambert Blackwell, 1st Baronet
Lambert Blackwell redirects here. For those of the same name, Sir Lambert Blackwell, 3rd Baronet and Lambert Blackwell Larking
Sir Lambert Blackwell (died 1727) was the British consul to Florence.[1]
Biography
He was appointed as British Ambassador to the Republic of Venice in 1702. He died in 1727.
Appointments
- 1702 British Ambassador to the Republic of Venice
- 1697-1705 British Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- 1697-1698 and 1702-1705 British Ambassador to the Republic of Genoa
References
- ↑ "Britain to Close a Consulate With a View". New York Times. April 26, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
Across the room, lists of his predecessors hung framed on the wall in neat calligraphy. They begin in 1698 with Sir Lambert Blackwell, “consul at Leghorn,” as the port city of Livorno was then known, and continue through Sir Horace Mann, who as consul in Florence from 1760 to 1786 turned the consulate into a salon, receiving all Britons of rank who passed through the city.
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