LAMBRICK, Hugh Trevor. Shardlow, Derbyshire 20.4.1904 — Oxford 31.8.1982. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of Rev. Charles Mengier (Menzies?) Lambrick (1862–1947) and Jessie Mabel Trevor (1875–1946). Educated at schools in Caterham, Surrey and in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Born in a family with long traditions in colonial service and especially in Sindh, he studied at Oxford (Oriel College, B.A.), entered I.C.S. and served in 1927-46 in Sindh, finally as Deputy Commissioner of Larkana. Retired 1946. Fluent in Sindhi, also knew Baluchi. In 1940-43 President of Sind Historical Society. Conducted archaeological research on Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. C.I.E. 1944. From 1947 Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1951 also Lecturer in Modern History. In 1971 Fellow emeritus and D.Litt. Oxford. Married 1948 Gabrielle Margaret Jennings (1913–1968), two sons (archaeologist George Hugh Lambrick).

Publications: A number of articles on ancient geography, archaeology, history and ethnology in the Journal of Sind Historical Society.

– Sir Charles Napier and Sind. 402 p. Oxford 1952; John Jacob of Jacobabad. 465 p. L. 1960.

– Sind: A general introduction. 15+274 p. History of Sind Series 1. Hyderabad (Sind) 1964, 2nd ed. Hyderabad (Sind) & Karachi 1975.

– “The Indus flood-plain and the ‘Indus’ Civilization”, Geogr. Journal 1967.

– The Terrorist. Transl. from the Sindhi. 246 p. L. 1972 (on the Hur rebellion, presented as a manuscript by a Hur, but also called a novel).

– Sind before the Muslim Conquest. 12+218 p. History of Sind Ser. 2. Hyderabad 1973.

Sources: Cover of his Sind. 1975; *M. Moir, Oxford D.N.B.; briefly in Wikipedia.