Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton KCMG FRCP (14 November 1875 – 25 January 1938) was a Canadian surgeon, entomologist and health administrator who helped to identify the cause of beri-beri.
He was born in the village of Kendal, Durham County, Ontario to storekeeper Thomas Stanton and educated at the local Port Hope High School on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
[1][2] In 1905 he moved to England to continue his medical studies at University College and the London Hospital, earning a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) in 1906.
[2] In 1907 he left to work in Malaya with Henry Fraser at the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur on a project to investigate the cause of beri-beri, a debilitating disease which afflicted the local people.
He was also a board member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the councils of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association.