Ambrose Woodall, 1st Baron Uvedale of North End
{{Short description|British surgeon (1885–1974)}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.historyinink.com/1127901_Elizabeth_II_signed_coronation_summons.htm|title=Autograph - 922202 - Framed presidential document signed by President Zachary Taylor|website=www.historyinink.com}} He was knighted in 1931{{Cite web|title=Page 1353 {{!}} Issue 33693, 27 February 1931 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33693/page/1353|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.thegazette.co.uk}} and elevated to the peerage as Baron Uvedale of North End, of North End in the County of Middlesex, in 1946.{{Cite web|title=Page 3394 {{!}} Issue 37637, 2 July 1946 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37637/page/3394|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}
Woodall was childless and his title became extinct upon his death on 28 February 1974, aged 88.
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|escutcheon = Or a hurst of oak trees eradicated Proper in chief two crosses moline Gules.
|crest = Upon a stump of a tree eradicated a pheasant Proper.
|supporters = On either side in front of a fir tree a pheasant all Proper.
|motto = Labor Omnia Vincit{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1956}}}}
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Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England