A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Ambler, Charles

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 29 July, 1736.

Second son of Humphrey Ambler, of Stubbings, Bisham, Berks. He was called to the Bar 2 July, 1742, and entered at Lincoln's Inn, 1757. He became King's Counsel 6 May, 1761, at the same time as Sir William Blackstone (q.v.), and subsequently Attorney-General to the Queen. Ambler's Reports embrace a period of nearly fifty years (1737—1784), and, as he himself reminds us, give us the decisions of five Chancellors, several Masters of the Rolls, and more than one body of Commissioners. As originally printed in 1790 Ambler's Reports were considered of imperfect authority, but the edition published in 1828 by Mr. Blunt has removed defects. Mr. Ambler died at Maidenhead on 23 Feb. 1794.