Robert Ambrose (1855 – 13 June 1940) was an

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. Born in

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, the son of Michael Ambrose and Eliza Quaide, he was educated at Wier's School and

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. He qualified as a surgeon and set up a practice in the

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. Despite this, he stood in the West Mayo by-election, 1893 for the anti-

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and was elected, holding his seat in the

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and 1906 general elections. He decided not to stand in January 1910, and instead became involved with the British Labour Party, for which he stood unsuccessfully in Whitechapel and St Georges at the 1918 general election.Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament'', vol.2, p.6 Ambrose wrote ''A Plea for Industrial Regeneration of Ireland'', published in 1909. His cousin,

Daniel Ambrose Daniel Ambrose (c. 1843 – 17 December 1895) was a medical practitioner and an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was born in Loughill Co Lim ...

, also served as an anti-Parnellite MP. Another first cousin, was John Wolfe Ambrose, the man is commemorated in the Ambrose Tunnel in New York.

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1855 births 1940 deaths Alumni of University College Cork Anti-Parnellite MPs Irish surgeons Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Mayo constituencies (1801–1922) People from Newcastle West UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Medical doctors from County Limerick {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub