Daniel Lambert (born March 13, 1770, died 12 June1809) was a man from Stamford (Lincolnshire) in England, who became nationally famous for his obesity. When he died he weighed 739 pounds (336 kg). When he reached the weight of 700 lb (318 kg) in 1806, he started touring, charging five shillings (£0.25) a head to look at him. He died suddenly in Stamford in 1809, where the wall of the public house in which he was staying had to be dismantled to remove his body. He is now buried in St. Martin's churchyard in Stamford. At the time it was thought that he was the fattest man in the country, and possibly beyond. The Stamford Museum has a display that contrasts his clothes with those of the man thought to be the smallest in the land!
A local anecdote is that he would visit the many pubs in Stamford and challenge visitors to a race, with the one proviso he had a small head start. There are many narrow passageways in Stamford that act as short cuts between the major streets. Once he was ahead, he would use these passageways and because of his size prevent his opponent from being able to pass. The result was that despite his size he would always win.
DANIELLAMBERT, born Oct. 3, 1658, was also a shipwright, and there was an unidentified Daniel of Sweet's Cove, Salem, engaged in the same trade about 1663.
Ebenezer Lambert was made guardian of the son Daniel: John Lambert, sr., of the son Samuel,, and Mary and Rachel were placed under guardianship of Thomas Waller of Charlestown.
In 1710, Daniel, the eldest son, " purchased by the act of Redemption ", for £81:10, the house and homestead of his father from Samuel Swasey of Salem and sold it to him by the same instrument.
DANIELLAMBERT (1770-1809), an Englishman famous for his great size, was born near Leicester on the 13th of March 1770, the son of the keeper of the jail, to which post he succeeded in 1791.
About this time his size and weight increased enormously, and though he had led an active and athletic life he weighed in 1793 thirty-two stone (448 lb).
George Meredith describes London as the "DanielLambert of cities," and Herbert Spencer uses the phrase "a DanielLambert of learning." His enormous proportions were depicted on a number of tavern signs, but the best portrait of him, a large mezzotint, is preserved at the British Museum in Lyson's Collectanea.
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