AMHERST, a village and district in the Tenasserim division of Lower Burma. The village is about 3om. S. of Moulmein. It was founded by the British in 1826 on the restoration of the town of Martaban to the Burmese, and named in compliment to the governor-general of India of that day; but in 1827 the head quarters were transferred to Moulmein. Amherst is now merely a fishing village and a bathing-place for Moulmein. For a de scription of Amherst district see BURMA.