Josias Lambert

John Lambert was born at Calton Hall, near Kirkby Malham in Yorkshire, son of Josias Lambert (1554-1632) and his third wife, Anne Pigott (ca 1605-1643). He had two half-sisters from his father's previous marriages, Cassandra and Jane.[1]

A well-established member of the minor Yorkshire gentry, by the late 1620s Josias was in serious financial difficulties and died almost bankrupt. As a minor, John Lambert became the ward of Sir William Lister, a long-standing family friend, who appears to have paid for his education at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]

In 1639 he married Frances Lister (1622-1676), Sir William's younger daughter; they had three children who survived into adulthood, Thomas (1639-1694), John (1639-1701) and Mary (1642-1675). (From wikipedia)
sourced: Adamson, JSA (1987). "The English Nobility and the Projected Settlement of 1647". The Historical Journal. 30 (3): 567–602. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00020896. JSTOR 2639160