Joseph Lambton was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

Life

He was the second son of Thomas Lambton of Malton-in-Rydall, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, and Katharine, daughter of Robert Birkhead of West Brandon, Durham

Durham

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. He arrived at the English College in Reims

Reims

Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....

, 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 English mission on 22 April 1592. He was arrested at Newcastle on landing with Edward Waterson

Edward Waterson

Edward Waterson was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He served the hidden Catholics in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Edward was arrested in 1593 and executed at Newcastle upon Tyne. He was beatified in 1929....

, and condemned at the next assizes under 27 Eliz., c. 2. He was cut down alive, and the hangman refused to complete the sentence, which was carried out by a Frenchman practicing as a surgeon at Kenton

Kenton

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