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Serle was born on 30 August 1742, and entered the Royal Navy.
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Ambrose Serle
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When William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth became Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1772, Serle was appointed one of his under-secretaries, and in January 1776 he was made clerk of reports. He went to America in 1774, and accompanied the British Army from 1776 to 1778. In 1776 William Tryon gave him control of the political section of the New-York Gazette, which he held from September 1776 to July 1777.
On returning from America in 1780 Serle settled at Heckfield, Hampshire.
In 1795 he was a commissioner of the transport service and the care of prisoners of war, and was reappointed in 1803 and 1809. Serle died on 1 August 1812, and was buried in the churchyard at Broadwater, West Sussex.
