Joseph Lambton
English martyr, b.1569; d. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, probable date is July 24, 1592
Lambton, JOSEPH, VENERABLE, English martyr, b.1569; d. at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The day of his death is variously given as June 23, July 23, and July 27, and the year as 1592 and 1593; but from a letter of Lord Huntingdon it is clear he died before July 31, 1592, and Father Holtby’s Stonyhurst MS. says he died on a Monday, so that the probable date is July 24, 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 April 22, 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 practising as a surgeon at Kenton.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT