Edward Ambrose Burgis was an English Dominican historian and theologian.
Background
He was born in England c. 1673. When a young man he left the Church of England, of which his father was a minister, and became a Catholic, joining the Dominican Order at Rome, where he passed his noviceship in the convent of Saints John and Paul on the Coelian Hill, then occupied by the English Dominicans.
Career
After his religious profession (1696) he was sent to Naples to the Dominican school of Saint Thomas, where he displayed unusual mental ability. Upon the completion of his studies he was sent to the Flemish university of Louvain, where for nearly thirty years he taught philosophy, theology, Sacred Scripture and church history in the College of Saint Thomas, established in 1697 for the Dominicans of England through the bequest of Cardinal Thomas Howard, Ordinis Prcpdieatorum = of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Ecclesiastical Title) He was the rector of the college from 1715 to 1720 and again from 1724 to 1730. In the latter year he was elected to the office of provincial superior.
In 1741 he became Prior of the English Dominican convent at Bornhem, and in 1746 he was appointed Vicar-General of the English Dominicans in Belgium.
He died in Brussels on 27 April 1747.