16 Facts About Ambrose Bury

Ambrose Bury was born in Downings House, County Kildare, Ireland on 1 August 1869.

Ambrose Bury was educated at the Liverpool Institute, the Royal School in Raphoe, Dublin High School, Trinity College Dublin, and the King's Inns in Dublin, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and a Master of Arts in 1893.

Ambrose Bury taught theology and was the first principal of the Irish Baptist College in 1892.

Ambrose Bury married Margaret Amy Beatrice Owen, from England, on 16 June 1897, with whom he had one son, William Bury.

Ambrose Bury was called to the Irish Bar in 1906, and practiced law in Ireland before emigrating to Edmonton in 1912.

Later that year, in the 1921 municipal election, Ambrose Bury was elected to the Edmonton City Council for a two-year term as alderman, finishing fourth of nineteen candidates in a race in which the top seven candidates were elected.

Ambrose Bury was re-elected to another two-year term in the 1923 election.

Towards the end of his second term on council, Ambrose Bury was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative in the riding of Edmonton East in the 1925 election.

However, Parliament was dissolved amid the King-Byng Affair the following year, and Ambrose Bury was narrowly defeated in the ensuing election by Liberal Kenny Blatchford.

Blatchford had taken his job, and Ambrose Bury set out to take Blatchford's, running for mayor in the 1926 election.

Ambrose Bury defeated Daniel Kennedy Knott, and was re-elected in 1927 and 1928.

Ambrose Bury did not seek re-election in 1929, anticipating a rematch against Blatchford in the next federal election.

Ambrose Bury opted not to seek re-election in the 1935 election.

Ambrose Bury was appointed as a district court judge that year, and served in that capacity until he reached the retirement age of 75 in 1944.

In 1946, Ambrose Bury's wife died, and Ambrose Bury moved to England to live with his brother.

Ambrose Bury's funeral was held in Edmonton, and he was buried in the Edmonton Cemetery.