John Lamb (Australian politician)

John Lamb (1790 – 17 January 1862) was an English-born Australian politician, naval commander and banker. The son of Captain Edward Lamb of the East India Company and Eliza Buchanan, Lamb was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 10 September 1844. He had a distinguished career with the Royal Navy, beginning at age 11 on his uncle Captain William Buchanan's British Navy warship, the Leviathan. Lamb was noted for his role in several feats over the French and accepted the rank of retired naval commander in May 1846.

Lamb was the chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (now National Australia Bank), of which his sons Walter Lamb, Alfred Lamb, Edward Lamb and John de Villiers Lamb were directors, and of which his daughter-in-law Henrietta Lamb's brother Thomas Smith was the deputy chairman, and of which the uncle of his daughter-in-law's brother Henry Smith was chairman, and his wife Emma Trant was the daughter of the deputy chairman of Lloyds Bank.