Ambrose Woodall, 1st Baron Uvedale of North End

Ambrose Edgar Woodall, 1st Baron Uvedale of North End MD, FRCS (24 April 1885 – 28 February 1974), known as Sir Ambrose Woodall between 1931 and 1946, was a British surgeon.

Woodall was Resident Surgeon at Manor House Hospital from 1921 to 1958 and Medical Adviser to the National Union of Railway Men and other unions from 1922 to 1958.[1] He was knighted in 1931[2] and elevated to the peerage as Baron Uvedale of North End, of North End in the County of Middlesex, in 1946.[3]

Woodall was childless and his title became extinct upon his death on 28 February 1974, aged 88.[1]

Arms
Coat of arms of Ambrose Woodall, 1st Baron Uvedale of North End
Crest
Upon a stump of a tree eradicated a pheasant Proper.
Escutcheon
Or a hurst of oak trees eradicated Proper in chief two crosses moline Gules.
Supporters
On either side in front of a fir tree a pheasant all Proper.
Motto
Labor Omnia Vincit[4]

References
  1. "Autograph - 922202 - Framed presidential document signed by President Zachary Taylor". www.historyinink.com.
  2. "Page 1353 | Issue 33693, 27 February 1931 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. "Page 3394 | Issue 37637, 2 July 1946 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. Burke's Peerage. 1956.
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