Ambrose Foss

Ambrose Foss ( 1803 in England4 May 1862) was an Australian alderman, chemist, druggist, dentist and landowner based in Sydney. Together with colleague Edward Hunt, Foss founded the Congregational Church in New South Wales. Foss built a house called Forest Lodge after which a Sydney suburb is named.

Career In 1828, Foss purchased a chemist shop in Sydney from apothecary John Tawell; Foss would go on to own several more pharmaceutical and grocery stores in the next two decades. His daughter Emily Jane Foss married astronomer Henry Chamberlain Russell in 1861. His son Thomas Ambrose, with whom he established Foss Son Company, was born in 1828 and died in 1871.

Ambrose Foss died on 4 May 1862 aged 59 in Balmain, Sydney. His funeral had a modest attendance, with representatives of the Sydney Female Refuge, the Bible Society, and the Religious Tract and Book Society all present. He was buried with Louise at Rookwood Cemetery.