Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 1801

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Stipple engraving

Aylmer Bourke Lambert was keenly interested in natural history and associated with the Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest active biological society.

Aylmer Bourke Lambert was a British botanist born in Bath, England in 1761.

Aylmer Bourke Lambert collected over 50,000 botanical specimens from around the world.

Aylmer Bourke Lambert was a friend of Edward Smith-Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby, who acquired Lambert’s collection of Australian natural history drawings from the First Fleet period.

Aylmer Bourke Lambert made or kept copies of Australian drawings of birds, plants, mammals and fish, part of which are now known as the TAL & Dai-ichi Life (Earl of Derby) collection.

The plant genus Lambertia is named after botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert.