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Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery was a British politician who was a persistent advocate of imperial preference and tariff reform and did much for colonial territories. He is also remembered for his part in bringing about the fall of the government of Neville Chamberlain in 1940. Amery was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1899–1900 he was chief correspondent for The Times from the South African War and remained on the staff of that paper until 1909, editing The Times History of the South African War, 7 vol. (1900–09). He entered Parliament in 1911. He became undersecretary of state for the colonies in 1919 and was moved to a junior post at the Admiralty in 1921. Amery was made a privy councillor in 1922; and thereafter, apart from a term as first lord of the Admiralty (1922–24), he spent the rest of his career as a minister in imperial departments. In 1925 he created the Dominions Office, which later became the Commonwealth Relations Office. He was excluded from office by the national government (1931–40) and was a sharp critic of the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. In 1940 Amery’s voice was influential in breaking the Chamberlain government, to which he applied Oliver Cromwell’s injunction to the Long Parliament: “In the name of God, go!” From 1940 to 1945 he was secretary of state for India and Burma (Myanmar).

H.L. Ames was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

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The Township of Amherst Island, County of Lennox and Addington, Ontario, was incorporated effective January 1, 1850 under the terms of the Baldwin Act, Chapter 81, Canada Statutes, 1849. This act provided for the creation of municipal governments at the town, village and township levels and identified those which would automatically be granted municipal status when the act came into effect, January 1, 1850. Communities not named in the original act could petition the county council or legislative assembly for incorporation on reaching specified population levels An incorporated township, lower tier municipality, has a council consisting of an elected Reeve, Deputy Reeves, and councillors the number of which depend on the population of the township. Its responsibilities relate largely to the upkeep of the local road system and the delivery of services such as water and sewage. It has wide powers relating to the regulation of land and local administration through by-laws. It has the power to raise money through direct taxation on land and through the use of debentures Under the provisions of Bill 26, the Savings and Restructuring Act, 1996, the Township of Amherst Island was absorbed by the new Loyalist Township, effective January 1, 1998. Under this legislation the legislative assembly is authorized to make changes in municipal boundaries and status to increase the efficiency of local government and lower costs.

Sir Jeffery Amherst, first Baron Amherst (1717-1797) and military officer, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in North America in 1758. His great military services were all performed during the conquest of New France in the years 1758-1760 at Louisbourg, Fort Duquesne, Ticonderoga, and Montreal. He returned to England in 1763, and became Master General of the Ordnance in 1772.

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Alfred A. and Enid I. Amos lived in and/or visited northern Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.