Ambrose Sherwill

Ambrose Sherwill

Infobox Person
name= Sir Ambrose Sherwill


caption=
quotation= Bailiff of Guernsey
birth_date= 12 February, 1890
birth_place= Guernsey, Channel Islands
dead=dead
death_date= 1968
death_place= Alderney, Channel Islands

Sir Ambrose James Sherwill KBE MC (1890–1968) was Bailiff of Guernsey from 1946 to 1959.

Sherwill was commissioned into The Buffs in 1916 and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1917, being promoted Lieutenant shortly afterwards. During World War II, he was President of the Controlling Committee during the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, was deported to Cherche-Midi prison, Paris and subsequently to Laufen Internment Camp in Germany for his part in the Nicolle and Symes affair. He returned to Guernsey after the War, and served as Bailiff between 1946 and 1959. He was knighted in 1949. In 1960, he retired to Alderney, where he died in 1968.

References

* Marr, J, "Guernsey People", Phillimore, 1984
* Sherwill, A, "A Fair and Honest Book - the Memoirs of Sir Ambrose Sherwill", Stephen Devonald, 2006


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