Lamb, Patrick (c. 1650–1708/9), royal cook, was the second of seven children of Patrick Lambe (1613–c.1683) and Martha, née Russell (d. 1687), of the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Lamb's father was involved in victualling and in 1660 held a crown warrant as the sole retailer of tobacco in the precincts of ...