Editing Hubert Lamb (section)

==Family==
Lamb was son of Ernest Horace Lamb (1878–1946), [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|DSC]], [[Doctor of Science|DSc]], professor of engineering at [[Queen Mary University of London|Queen Mary College, London]],<ref>Journal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, collected volumes 153 and 154, Institution of Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain, 1946, p. 154</ref><ref>The Foundry Trade Journal, collected volumes 79 and 80 (24 October 1946 edition), Foundry Trade Journal Ltd, 1946, p. 27</ref> and Lilian, daughter of the Rev. G. H. Brierley.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-66263|title=Lamb, Hubert Horace (1913–1997), climatologist|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/66263|last1=Davies|first1=Trevor}}</ref> He was a grandson of the mathematician [[Horace Lamb]], whose influence he credited for his own early career at the Meteorological Office,<ref name=davies /> and a nephew of the classicist [[Walter Lamb (classicist)|Walter Lamb]], the painter [[Henry Lamb]] and the archaeologist [[Dorothy Lamb]]. His son [[Norman Lamb]] was the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] MP for [[North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|North Norfolk]] from 2001 until 2019.