Giles Ambrose

Ambrose, Giles; (England, May 3, 1912 - ) (He was named Frederick Lee Ambrose but his name changed to Giles when he joined the order) At the age of 16, he entered the "Cottage" at Kelham, England, and then studied at Kelham Theological College. After ordination he joined the Society of the Sacred Mission. He served at St. George's Nottingham, 1935-1939, and was then transferred to the South African Province of the Society. He returned to England in 1963 to become superior of the Mother House at Kelham. He returned to South Africa in 1970 and after retirement lived in Mafeking, South Africa.

-Stanley L. Osborne, DNAH Archives

After Mafeking, he returned to the UK briefly, where he met my mother Katharine whilst he was University Chaplain at Lancaster University. They married and moved to Rustenburg in South Africa where my father served as the Anglican parish priest. I was born in 1973 and my sister Marguerite was born in 1977. We moved to Pretoria in 1984 and my father was Anglican prison chaplain and also ran the Society of St Leonard helping prisoners and the destitute. My father died on Saturday 23 August 1997, aged 85. He had been a priest for 60 years.

Ralph Ambrose, son of Giles (email)