Maurice Amos
KBE KC | |
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Cairo Native Court | |
In office 1903–1906 | |
Cairo Court of Appeal | |
In office 1906; 1917 – 1913; 1922 | |
Personal details | |
Born | London | 15 June 1872
Died | 10 June 1940 Ulverston | (aged 67)
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Lucy Scott Moncrieff |
Alma mater | Trinity College Cambridge |
Profession | Barrister, judge |
Sir Percy Maurice Maclardie Sheldon Amos
Amos is best known for founding and contributing to the
After a short return to Britain in 1915 to help at the
Life
Amos was born on 15 June 1872 to Sheldon Amos, a legal academic, and Sarah Bunting, a political activist and the Lady Superintendent of the Working Women's College. Amos was educated by his mother and private tutors in France, Germany and England, until the family travelled to Australia in 1880 due to his father's health problems. Finding the country unpleasant they set out to return to England, but while passing through Egypt Sheldon Amos was offered the position of legal advisor to Lord Dufferin, which he accepted. The family stayed there until Sheldon's death in 1886, after which they returned to Europe to travel.[1]
In 1891, Amos matriculated to
Amos returned to the Court of Appeal in 1915, but was forced to suspend his work when he was called back to Britain to work for the
Returning to England in 1925, Amos took up his practice as a barrister again and received many briefs from the British government, particularly cases brought under the Treaty of Lausanne. In 1929 he stood for the Liberal Party at the general election in the constituency of Cambridge but was unsuccessful. In 1932 he was made a King's Counsel,[10] and became Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London (UCL). Both his father and grandfather were legal academics at UCL, and with this appointment Amos became the third family member in a row to work there.[4] He quickly distinguished himself, and was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law soon after his appointment. He wrote several textbooks and was one of the founders of the Modern Law Review, and the first to die.[11] Following his retirement in 1937 he continued writing until his death at home on 10 June 1940.
Writings
- The English Constitution (1930)
- Introduction to French Law (1935)
- Lectures on the American Constitution (1938)
- British Justice (1940)[12]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30403. Retrieved 22 October 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ http://keynessociety.wordpress.com/about-the-keynes-society/ and http://keynessociety.wordpress.com/who-ran-the-society/secretaries/
- ^ "Amos, Percy Maurice Mclardie Sheldon (AMS891PM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b H. A. H. (1941) p.403
- ^ "No. 27211". The London Gazette. 17 July 1900. p. 4432.
- ^ Percy Maurice McLardie Sheldon Amos in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1932
- ^ "No. 30688". The London Gazette. 17 May 1918. p. 5868.
- ^ "No. 32649". The London Gazette. 24 March 1922. pp. 2427–2428.
- ^ "No. 32718". The London Gazette. 9 June 1922. p. 4390.
- ^ "No. 33805". The London Gazette. 4 March 1932. p. 1491.
- ^ R. S. T. C. (1940) p.41
- ^ Radu-Alexandru FLORESCU, "Justiţia britanică" (traducere), ed. Alexandru I. Botez, București, 1945, pagina 4, nota de subsol nr.1