AMBROSE, ROBERT STEELE, farmer, organist, choirmaster, teacher, and composer; b

decided to replace him with Sir Ambrose Shea

. John, the remaining brother in St John’s, died in 1864. In 1870, therefore, Joseph formed a partnership with Robert John Kent*. He

. McDougall was admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor in 1847; he entered into partnership in Toronto with Ambrose Gorham, a fellow student. His legal career, however, served mainly to finance his

works were the dredging of the Ambrose Channel, which was to provide a new 40-foot-deep entrance to New York’s harbour, and the building of a subway tunnel under the East River for the New York Rapid

SHEA, Sir AMBROSE, newspaperman, businessman, politician, and governor of the Bahamas; baptized 15 May 1815 in St

THORBURN, Sir ROBERT, merchant and politician; b

Exhibition, held in London in 1883, and travelled there in advance of the commissioner, Ambrose Shea. Six years later he

of a New York syndicate, a course that set him against Ambrose Shea