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Type of entity
Person
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Amsler, Albert Maurice
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Description area
Dates of existence
1877-1952
History
Dr. Maurice Amsler was a British physician and a notable aviculturist.
He was educated at St. Paul's School, St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the University of London (M.B., B.S.). After some clinical assistantships, he joined Dr. W. H. W. Attlee in partnership at Eton in 1906 and practiced there until he retired in 1935. He was a physician at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, with charge of the obstetrical beds. He was also a member of the Eton College medical board. Apart from his profession, he was a remarkably versatile man with a host of interests and hobbies. While a medical student, he played rugby and water polo and boxed for Bart's. At Eton, he often judged in the College boxing and diving contests. He could raise plants and breed foreign birds when others failed, and many experts came to Eton to see his beautiful garden and his aviaries. His cabinet-making, too, was the envy of amateurs. Dr. Amsler was a frequent contributor to The Avicultural Magazine, specializing in breeding foreign birds, particularly South American finches and softbills.
A few weeks before his death, he was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's coveted Victoria Medal of Honour.