Albert Bond Lambert

Albert Bond Lambert medal table
golf
United States
Olympic games
silver	St. Louis 1904	team

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

Commons : Albert Bond Lambert  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Albert Bond Lambert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lawrence O. Christensen: Dictionary of Missouri Biography . Ed .: University of Missouri Press. 1999, ISBN 0-8262-1222-0 , pp. 469 (English).
2. ↑ STL Airport Trading Cards. FlySTL.com, accessed April 17, 2019 .