The British Musical Biography

[E] Lambert, Sir John, distinguished civil
servant, and first Permanent Secretary to the
Local Government Board, demands mention
here on account of his services to Roman
Catholic Church music. He was born at
Bridzor, Tisbury, Wiltshire, February 4, 1815,
and died at Milford House, Clapham Common,
January 27, 1892. He was a member of the
St. Cecilia Academy, Rome, and the recipient
of a gold medal from Pius IX. for his arrange-
ments of the Psalms and Antiphons of the
Roman Liturgj'. His public and political life
is dealt with in the memoir in Vol. XXXII.
of the Dictionarv of National Biography
(London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1892).

[W] Works. — Totuni Antiphonarium Vesperale
Organistrum in Ecclesiis accommodatum,
1849 ; Hymnarium Vesperale, Hymnos Ves-
perales totius anni complectens ; Ordinarium
Missse e Graduale Romano in usum organis-
trarum adaptatum, 1851 ; The true mode of
accompanying the Gregorian Chant, 1848 ;
Harmonising and singing the Ritual song ;
Grammar of Plain Chant ; INIusic of the
Middle Ages, 1857, etc. He also collaborated
in the preparation of other works on Liturgical
Music.

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