Ambrose Appelbe

Ambrose Erle Fuller Appelbe (1903 – 24 January 1999) was a British solicitor and social reformer.

Appelbe was born on a Trek Ox-wagon in the Kalahari Desert to a British family, his father being a medical missionary. He was educated at Kingswood School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was the Squire Law Scholar.^[1]

Appelbe settled at Toynbee Hall, and formed his own firm of solicitors. He also served on the council of the universities settlements, and on the executive of the Fabian Society.^[1]

In 1929, Appelbe married fellow solicitor Carrie Morrison.^[2] At the 1935 United Kingdom general election, he stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Harwich.^[3] In 1958, he was a founding trustee of the Albany Trust.

Appelbe was, with George Bernard Shaw and H.G Wells, a founder of the Smell Society, which had the aim of promoting pleasant smells.^[4]