Walter Lamb

Walter Lamb (8 January 1825 – 13 November 1906) was an Australian businessman, banker and politician. In 1889 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he served until 1893. A member of the Lamb banking family, he became a director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney in 1860. In 1880, he became chairman of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company.

His father Commander John Lamb was a Commercial Banking Company of Sydney director, as were his brothers Alfred Lamb, Edward Lamb and John de Villiers Lamb. His sister-in-law by John de Villiers Lamb, Henrietta Lamb (née Smith), was the sister of the deputy chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Thomas Smith. He married Margaret Elizabeth Dangar, daughter of Australian politician and explorer Henry Dangar.