{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Sep Lambert | image = | caption = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 7 | runs1 = 184 | bat avg1 = 23.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/1 | top score1 = 60* | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1= 3/0 | international = true | country = Ireland | source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26803/26803.html CricketArchive | date = 6 December | year = 2022 }}
'''Septimus Drummond Lambert''' (3 August 1876 – 21 April 1959)<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26803/26803.html Cricket Archive profile]</ref> was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper,<ref name="CAP" /> he played 14 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1896 and 1921,<ref name="CESZP">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire158.htm |title=CricketEurope Stats Zone profile |access-date=29 December 2006 |archive-date=21 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121074001/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire158.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> including seven first-class matches.<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26803/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Sep Lambert] at CricketArchive</ref>
Lambert was educated at Rathmines School and Wesley College in Dublin and at St John's College in Preston before qualifying as a solicitor in Dublin.
==Cricket career==
Sep Lambert made his debut for Ireland against I Zingari in August 1896. Never a regular in the Irish side, his international career contains several large gaps between matches, and it was three years before he played his second match for Ireland, also against I Zingari in August 1899. Another three-year gap followed,<ref name="CESZP" /> before he made his first-class debut for Ireland, against London County in May 1902,<ref name="FCM" /> in what was also Ireland's first first-class match.<ref name="IreM">[http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/irer54.htm List of matches played by] Ireland</ref> This was a rare period of consistent selection for Ireland,<ref name="CESZP" /> and he played three further first-class matches again that month, against the MCC, Oxford University and Cambridge University.<ref name="FCM" />
He played once in 1903 against London County, and twice in 1904 against South Africa and Cambridge University. He played a match against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI in 1905, before another gap in appearances, this time for eleven years, returning for a match against Scotland in July 1911.<ref name="CESZP" />
Another long gap followed, though much of this can be explained by Ireland not playing between 1915 and 1919 due to the First World War.<ref name="IreM" /> He did play three more times for Ireland though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921.<ref name="CESZP" />
===Statistics===
In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland<ref name="CESZP" /> and also his top first-class score.<ref name="CAP" /> He took ten catches and no stumpings.<ref name="CESZP" />
==Family==
His parents were Kate (née Barrett) and Thomas Drummond Lambert.<ref name="Clavin">{{cite book|last1=Clavin|first1=Terry|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|location=Cambridge|chapter=Bob (Robert James Hamilton) Lambert ''In'' Lambert, Ham (Noel Hamilton)|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James}}</ref> Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland.<ref name="CAP" />
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