Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery was born on November 22, 1873, in Gorakhpur, India.
He was a British Conservative journalist and politician. He studied at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He could converse in French, German, Italian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Serbian, and Hungarian. During the Second Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902), Amery was a correspondent for The Times. In the 1911 Birmingham South by-election, he was unopposed as a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament, and he would hold that seat until 1945. During World War I, Amery's knowledge of Hungarian led to his employment as an Intelligence Officer in the Balkans campaign. He was opposed to the Constitution of the League of Nations. Amery was elected to the seat of Birmingham Sparkbrook in the 1918 general election. He was First Lord of the Admiralty (1922–1924) under Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. From 1824 to 1929, he served as Colonial Secretary in Baldwin's government and set up the Empire Marketing Board in 1926. Amery spent a lot of time in Germany during the 1930s, where he met with Hitler, Mussolini, and other European leaders. He was a sharp critic of the Munich Agreement with Hitler and Mussolini and was a lifelong anti-communist. During the Churchill war ministry (1940-1945), he served as Secretary of State for India and Burma. Amery, a noted mountaineer, climbed in the Swiss Alps, Bavaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Italy, and the Canadian Rockies, where Mount Amery is named after him. He published a three-volume autobiography, “My Political Life” (1953–1955).
In 1910, he married Adaliza Florence Louise Hamer Greenwood (1881–1975). He died on September 16, 1955, in London, England.
Sir Herbert Brown Ames was born on June 27, 1863, in Montreal, Quebec.
He was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He was educated at Amherst College, Massachusetts (B.A., 1885). He engaged in business in Montréal with the firm of Ames, Holden and Co. from 1885-1893 and later became a director of this and several other corporations. He became a Member of Parliament in 1904 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and served until 1920. Ames was a Montréal alderman from 1898 to 1906 and chairman of the Board of Health from 1900 to 1904. In these capacities, he helped to bring about important civic reforms. He also represented Montréal-St. Antoine district as a Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1920. From 1919 to 1926, he served as financial director of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in Geneva and was Canadian delegate to the Assembly of the League in 1926. Ames was knighted in 1915. He is best known for his book “The City Below the Hill: A Sociological Study of a portion of the city of Montreal, Canada,” which originally appeared as newspaper articles in the Montreal Star in 1897.
In 1890, he married Louisa Marion Kennedy (1869-1956). He died on March 31, 1954, in Montreal, Quebec.
Terrence Ames was the publisher, printer, and editor of The Fault Press, based in California. It published The Fault, a magazine of fiction, poetry, letters, photography and art.
Dr. John William Amesse was born on January 15, 1874, in Eagle River, Michigan.
He was an American physician. He served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps during the First World War. Dr. Amesse was a professor of clinical pediatrics at the Colorado University Medical School.
In 1905, he married Mary Moneta Hawes (1878-1956). He died on August 21, 1949, in Denver, Colorado.
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, was born on January 14, 1773, in Bath, England.
He was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was the grand-nephew of Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, and succeeded to his title in 1797 according to a special remainder in the letters patent. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. After serving as British envoy at the court of Naples (1809–1811), he was sent to China (1816) to negotiate commercial matters. At the imperial court, however, Amherst declined to perform the kowtow (to strike his forehead on the ground nine times in obeisance), and his mission failed. Amherst was Governor-General of India from August 1823 to February 1828. The principal events of his government were the annexation of Assam leading to the first Burmese war of 1824, resulting in the cession of Arakan and Tenasserim to the British Empire. He was created Earl in 1826.
In 1800, he married Sarah, Dowager Countess of Plymouth (1762–1838), and in 1839, he remarried Mary, Dowager Countess of Plymouth (1792–1864). He died on March 13, 1857, in Kent, England.
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, was born on January 29, 1717, in Sevenoaks, Kent, England.
He was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. He joined the British army as an ensign in 1731. He participated in European campaigns, and in 1756, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1758, as a major general, he commanded the expedition to Louisbourg and afterwards was made the commander-in-chief of British forces in North America. In 1760, he led his troops in the capture of Montréal and held the post of Governor General of British North America from 1760 to 1763. He was named the Governor of Virginia in 1763 and the Governor of Guernsey in 1770. During the American Revolution, he advised the British government on military matters. In 1788, he was made a baron, and in 1796 a field Marshall.
He died on August 3, 1797, in Sevenoaks, Kent, England.
