Sir Ambrose Button (c. 1549 – after 1608) was the member of the

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for Malmesbury for the

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of 1571.BUTTON, Ambrose (?c.1549-aft.1608), of Alton Priors, Wilts.; later of Buckland, Hants.
''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 13 October 2018. Button was the first son of William Button (1526–1591) of

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, Wiltshire, who had also been an MP. Ambrose was disinherited by his father in favour of his brother, also William (died 1599), causing the

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to summon William senior to London to explain matters. They informed him that

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"much disliked" the action, and that Ambrose was "known to some at court to be of very good behaviour and well affected in religion, perhaps better given" than William junior. The disinheritance was not reversed, however.BUTTON, William II (1526-91), of Alton Priors, Wilts.
''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 9 December 2018. Button was

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ed at Greenwich in 1605.

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