Lamberts (Revised)

I remember Wanda Lambert as maybe a third grader when I was in eighth grade at San Salvador Christian Academy in El Salvador. Mrs. Lambert sometimes served as our substitute teacher, once even for a whole week which required reading aloud a few pages from a book during the half-hour storytime after lunch. Mrs. Lambert wore glasses with very dark, thick frames that covered her eyebrows. Her solution was to paint cartoonish eyebrows on her forehead, just in case you were worried about her eyebrows getting covered by the dark-framed glasses. I mean really, did she think that we students could not figure out that those were not her real eyebrows? But I digress. It is vaguely interesting that our paths did cross with persons of the surname Lambert, not to be confused with Lambeth, a former boss. The Lamberts that I knew were American missionaries in El Salvador. However, the Lamberts listed in the annals of the British peerage are the children of honorable Elizabeth, actually Camden-Elizabeth MacLellan, the one and only daughter and heir of Camden-Gray MacLellan, the 10th and last Lord Kirkcudbright. The title became dormant at his death in 1832 because he had no male heir but he did have one daughter who married James Staunton Lambert and they apparently lived in Galway, Ireland. I suppose that the Lamberts, if any survivors of that branch of the Lambert family still survive, could apply for the title of Lord Kirkcudbright, except that there is no Kirkcudbright in Galway, which is located in Galloway, so it would not make a lot of sense, now would it? How can you call yourself Lord Kirkcudbright when you have never lived in that town, not even in Scotland, but actually are from Northern Ireland? And anyway, your surname is not even anything close to MacLellan or McClellan or McClelland, etc., so there is no way that you could hope to be approved as clan chief. No McClellan is going to vote for an Irish Lambert, Is suspect. So the title just would not mean anything, now would it?