Joseph Lamb

Joseph Francis Lamb (December 6, 1887 – September 3, 1960) was a noted American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott.

Life and career

Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey. The youngest of four children, he taught himself to play the piano, and was very taken with the early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. He dropped out of St. Jerome's College in 1904 to work for a dry goods company. In 1907 Lamb was purchasing the latest Joplin and James Scott sheet music in the New York City offices of John Stark & Son when he met his idol Joplin. Joplin was favorably impressed with Lamb's compositions, and recommended him to classical ragtime publisher John Stark. Stark published Lamb's music for the next decade, starting with "Sensation".

Lamb’s twelve rags published by Stark from 1908 to 1919 can be divided into two groups. A) The “heavy” rags which are incorporated with Scott Joplin’s melody–dominated style and James Scott’s expansive use of the keyboard registers. This style of rags includes

Joseph Lamb (politician)

Sir Joseph Quinton Lamb (2 May 1873 – 20 November 1949) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stone in Staffordshire, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1945 general election.

He was knighted in 1929.

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Joseph Lamb (footballer)

Joseph Lamb was an English football manager. He coached Dutch club side Feyenoord between 1929 and 1930.