Albert Bond Lambert
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Albert Bond Lambert (born December 6, 1875 in St. Louis , Missouri , † November 12, 1946 there ) was an American golfer and aviation pioneer .
biography
Albert Bond Lambert was born to Jordan W. Lambert , founder of the Lambert Pharmacal Company . He graduated from the University of Virginia and took over the management of the family business in 1896.
At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 , Lambert took part in the first Olympic golf tournament , where he finished eighth. When he was back in his home country, he and his father-in-law George McGrew founded the Glen Echo Country Club in Normandy . As part of the Olympic Games in 1904 , the golf competitions took place on the club's premises, in which Lambert participated again. In the individual , he was fifth by reaching the quarter-finals. In team competition , he won the silver medal with the Trans Mississippi Golf Association .
Albert Bond Lambert was also considered an aviation pioneer and veteran of the First World War. He had built a balloon launch pad on the Kinoch Field he had leased . In 1920 the Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport was built there . In 1923 Albert Bond was able to establish Lambert St. Louis as the venue for an international air race, after which the airport was renamed Lambert St. Louis Flying Field . Charles Lindbergh , who decided to work as a flight instructor in St. Louis, was also present at this air race .
Web links
- Albert Bond Lambert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lawrence O. Christensen: Dictionary of Missouri Biography . Ed .: University of Missouri Press. 1999, ISBN 0-8262-1222-0 , pp. 469 (English).
- ↑ STL Airport Trading Cards. FlySTL.com, accessed April 17, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Lambert, Albert Bond |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lambert, Al (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American golfer and aviation pioneer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1946 |
Place of death | St. Louis , United States |