Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan

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

The title Earl of Cavan was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1647 for Charles Lambart, 2nd Baron Lambart. Horace Lambart was heir to the title when the Irish Free State was created in 1922. Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan, is the present holder of the title. There is no heir.

Lambart was born at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, and was educated at Charterhouse School and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, as BA in 1901 and MA in 1904. At university he was an oarsman in the Oxford University Eight oar trial race for three years, with interval for Boer War service. He also rowed bow in winning four of the University College Prize Medal Four Oars.

At Charterhouse, he joined the school's Cadet Corps in 1893, and was commissioned while still a boy in 1897.

In 1899, while at university, Lambart was commissioned Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry. He renounced his commission to enlist, through the Inns of Court Rifles, into the London City Imperial Volunteers in 1900, after the outbreak of the Boer War.

In South Africa, he served from 1900 to 1902 as Private in the CIV despatch cyclist section, much of the time under Lord Kitchener's personal orders.

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