Edwin Gifford Lamb

Born in London on December 22, 1878, he was educated in private schools there and also spent three years in northwestern Canada before returning to formal study. The autobiographical note published with The Social Work of the Salvation Army says he later attended the University of Toronto and then Columbia University.

His best-known work, The Social Work of the Salvation Army (1909), grew out of doctoral research at Columbia. In it, he examined the Salvation Army less as a church than as a social organization, focusing on its efforts to help poor and vulnerable people.

Library of Congress records list him as Edwin Gifford Lamb, born in 1878, and surviving book records suggest that this dissertation is the work he is chiefly remembered for today. I wasn’t able to confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so none is included here.