Ethel Mary Lambert (née Coote) (1879-1956) was a Labour Party politician in the Poplar area. Born in 1879 in Hoole, Cheshire, she was the daughter of William Henry Coote, a contractor. She was orphaned and by 1891 she was living in Chester Workhouse. She married Albert Robert Lambert, a tram conductor, in the Parish Church of Bromley St Leonard on 7 November 1899. A member of Poplar Borough Council, she served as Mayor of Poplar for 1937-38.