The Venerable Horace Edward Samuel Sneade Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (25 August 1878 – 9 December 1950) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Anglican priest.

The title Earl of Cavan

Earl of Cavan

Earl of Cavan is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1647 for Charles Lambart, 2nd Baron Lambart. He was made Viscount Kilcoursie, in the King's County, at the same time, also in the Peerage of Ireland...

 was created in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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 in 1647 for Charles Lambart, 2nd Baron Lambart

Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan

Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan PC was an MP for the rotten borough of Bossiney and a military commander.-Politics:He held the office of Member of Parliament for Bossiney in 1626....

. Horace Lambart was heir to the title when the Irish Free State

Irish Free State

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 was created in 1922. Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan

Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan

Roger Cavan Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan is an hereditary peer.He was educated at Wilson's School, Surrey, St Clare's International School and at King's College London....

, is the present holder of the title. There is no heir.

Military service

Lambart graduated from Magdalen College

Magdalen College, Oxford

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, Oxford. He served in both the Boer War

Boer War

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 and the First World War.
He was promoted to Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the service of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

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.

Marriage

On 9 July 1907, he married Audrey Kathleen Loder (died 8 April 1942); they had three children.

Religious life

He was the Vicar of Holy Trinity, Leaton, Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

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, Shropshire, England (1908 to 1913), of Market Drayton

Market Drayton

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, Shropshire, England (1913 to 1918) and of St Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury, from 1918 to 1925. He held the office of Archdeacon of Shropshire in 1916.