Born: March 1824, Chelms­ford, Es­sex, Eng­land.

Died: March 31, 1908, Ham­il­ton, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da.

Buried: Ham­il­ton, On­tar­io.

When the Ambrose fam­i­ly moved to Ham­il­ton, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da, in 1845, Robert stayed be­hind on the farm in Guelph. Two years lat­er, though, he joined his bro­ther Charles Jr., a mu­sic teach­er in King­ston. Ro­bert went on to be­come or­gan­ist and choir­mas­ter at St. George’s Church, and at Church of the Ascen­sion in Hamilton, and a teach­er at the Wes­ley­an La­dies Coll­ege in Ham­il­ton. He com­posed some 80 songs, 14 part-songs and 25 in­stru­ment­al piec­es.

Sources

Music

1. Dulce Domum