[Illustration] According to Surtees, traced to Robert de Lambton,
Lord of Lambton in 1314. 'There was, it is true, a John de Lambton,
living between 1180 and 1200, but the pedigree cannot be _proved_
beyond this Robert. The Lambtons were among the first families of
the North who embraced the Reformed Religion, and were loyal during
the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century.
See Surtees's Durham, ii. 174.
ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three lambs trippant argent_.
Present Representative, George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of
Durham.