Born at Starcross, South Devon, the second son of the Rev Richard Ambler, of Hardwick, in the parish of Norbury, Shropshire, which had been in the Ambler family for upwards of four centuries. Educated at Middlesex Hospital, and was for some years an assistant in a practice at Stalbridge, Dorset. He was greatly appreciated by his patients, who presented him with a handsome testimonial in 1852, when he left to practise at Hemel Hempstead, Herts, on his appointment as Surgeon to the West Herts Infirmary. In this position he succeeded Sir Astley Cooper. In 1876 he became High Bailiff of Hemel Hempstead, and served the district as Medical Officer and as Surgeon to the Old Manor Lodge, the Society of Foresters, and other clubs. In the course of his practice, but at different times, he sustained a fracture of the base of his skull, of the femur, the clavicle, and the nasal bones, and he was seriously wounded in the thigh by the kick of a horse. He died of apoplexy on Jan 11th, 1879, and was buried in the cemetery at Hemel Hempstead in the presence of two thousand persons. There is a portrait of him as a bluff Englishman in the Fellows Album at the Royal College of Surgeons. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: WOLFE. - On 15th November, 1959, peacefully in her 89th year, MABEL FRANCES, widow of HENRY JOHN WOLFE, of Harpenden, and daughter of the late Edward Holland Ambler, F.R.C.S., of Hemel Hempstead. Funeral, Harpenden Parish Church, at 2.30 p.m., Wednesday, 18th November.]