Albert Bond Lambert

He was son of Jordan W. Lambert, founder of Lambert Pharmacal Company, which marketed Listerine. He initially studied at the University of Virginia and became president of the family business in 1896. He became chairman in 1923 and stepped down in 1926 when it was acquired by another firm.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA469 |title=Dictionary of Missouri Biography |last=Christensen |first=Lawrence O. |page=469 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-8262-1222-0}}

In October 1900, Lambert competed in the golf competitions held as part of the Exposition Universelle in Paris. He finished eighth in the men's championship competition, later classified as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, and won the handicap competition.{{cite news |title=Albert Bond Lambert, St. Louis Millionaire, A Golf Winner In France |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/138239123/ |access-date=February 16, 2024 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=October 4, 1900 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription}}{{cite book |title=Concours internationaux d'exercices physiques et de sports |date=1901 |pages=77-79 |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/6480/rec/3 |language=French}}

Four years later he was part of the American team which won the silver medal, making Lambert the only golfer to have competed in both Olympic golf tournaments prior to the sport's long hiatus from 1908 to 2016. He finished 12th in this competition. In the individual competition he finished eighth in the qualification and was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the match play.

File:Albert Bond Lambert lifted by a kite at the Forest Park airfield.jpg

In 1906 he became interested in aviation and took ballooning lessons. In 1907 he was one of the founders of the Aero Club of St. Louis. He attended the Smith Academy at Washington University in St. Louis

In 1909, Lambert met the Wright Brothers, and purchased his first airplane from them. He took flying lessons from Orville Wright, and in 1911 became the first St. Louis resident to hold a pilot's license. During World War I, he organized and financed a training school in St. Louis for balloonists; the school was incorporated into the Army Signal Corps and moved to Texas. Lambert was commissioned as a major and served as the unit's commanding officer. https://missouriencyclopedia.org/people/lambert-albert-bond

In 1926, a young Charles Lindbergh visited his home while looking for financial support for his proposed transatlantic flight. Lambert offered financial support to Lindbergh and encouraged others to do the same. In return for this support, Lindbergh's plane was named The Spirit of St. Louis.

In 1925, for $68,000, Lambert purchased Kinloch Field in Kinloch, Missouri, a {{convert|170|acre|km2|adj=on}} field northwest of St. Louis, which had been used for hot air balloon ascensions and the first international air meet. At his own expense, Lambert developed the field by adding hangars and a passenger terminal. In 1928, Lambert sold the airfield to the city of St. Louis for $68,000, the same price he had paid for it before making improvements. The St. Louis Lambert International Airport, of which he is the namesake, is located on the same site and was the first municipally owned airport in the country.https://web.archive.org/web/20110822210016/http://www.lambert-stlouis.com/flystl/about-lambert/history/

Lambert was married to Myrtle McGrew, daughter of the George F. McGrews of St. Louis. They had a daughter, Myrtle, and sons, Albert Bond Lambert Jr., Don L. Lambert{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/574281349/?terms=Mrs.%20Albert%20Bond%20Lambert&match=1 |title=Widow of Pioneer St. Louis Airman, Maj. Lambert, Dies |newspaper=St. Louis Globe-Democrat |date=August 23, 1954 |page=3A |url-access=subscription |via=newspapers.com}} and George Lea Lambert. George, a pilot instructor, died in an airplane accident on July 29, 1929, in St. Louis, Missouri.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/17890909/?terms=george%20lambert&match=1 |title=George Lambert, Passenger, Killed As Plane Crashes |newspaper=Alton Evening Telegraph |location=Illinois |agency=Associated Press |date=July 29, 1929 |page=1 |url-access=subscription |via=newspapers.com}}

2 Hortense Place was the Lamberts' home in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Albert Bond Lambert House is a red-brick and symmetrical mansion which has a two-story portico with columns.{{cite book | author = Nini Harris | year = 2018 | title = This Used to Be St. Louis | publisher = Reedy Press, LLC | location = St. Louis, MO | id = 9781681061139 | pages = 41–42}} The nearly 12,000 square foot Neoclassical-style home was designed by noted architect George W. Hellmuth and was built between 1902 and 1903.{{cite web|url=https://tedwight.typepad.com/st_louis_real_estate_blog/2008/05/2-hortense-plac.html|title=2 Hortense Place|accessdate=2019-12-27}} It has 6 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms.{{cite web|url=https://www.estately.com/listings/info/2-hortense-place--1|title=2 Hortense Place St Louis, MO 63108 — Hortense, St Louis City County|accessdate=2019-12-27}} Before construction, its cost was estimated to be $45,000 ({{inflation|US|45,000|1902|fmt=eq}}).{{cite magazine|magazine=The American Architect and Building News|date=Nov 8, 1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AzAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA4|title=Building Intelligence}} This home was constructed just before the 1904 World's Fair. The King of Sweden also visited this house with the fireplace in the solarium apparently being a gift from the king.{{cite web|url=https://townandstyle.com/2-hortense-place-st-louis/|title=2 Hortense Place, St Louis|date=October 16, 2019 |accessdate=2019-12-27}}

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• {{SR/Olympics|la/al-lambert-1|Al Lambert|archive=20161203121245}}
• [http://www.earlyaviators.com/elambert.htm Albert Bond Lambert] at earlyaviators.com
• [https://www.flystl.com/about-us/history/ History of St. Louis Lambert International Airport]
• [http://www.gettyimages.com/license/517402990 Lambert and Orville Wright sitting aboard a Wright A-B transitional aircraft c.1910] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030505/http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/PG287/orville-wright-in-plane?popup=1 original version Corbis](Wayback Machine archived)
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