254:. 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
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in 1900. In 1903 he was made a judge of the Cairo Native Court, and in 1906 was promoted to the Court of Appeal, where he sat for seven years until offending the
British population of Cairo by acquitting an Egyptian accused of assaulting a British child. Retiring from the bench, he became Director of
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were legal academics at UCL, and with this appointment Amos became the third family member in a row to work there. 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
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in 1922. He returned to
Britain, resuming his practice as a barrister, and in 1932 was appointed Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, a position he held for five years. Involved in the founding of the
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Khedival School of Law in 1913, where he set up a postgraduate program. On 11 July 1906, Amos married Lucy Scott Moncrieff. The couple had two sons and three daughters.
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University of Paris in 1889. While working as an inspector he lectured at the Khedival School of Law in Cairo. For his work as an inspector, he was awarded the
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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
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from 1892 to 1894, and one of the people he shared this role with was
Russell. Gaining a first, he graduated in 1895, having won the Cobden Prize, and was
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in his trip to the United States. In 1917 he returned to Egypt, where he acted as the
Judicial Adviser to the Government of Egypt. He was awarded the
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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
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in May 1897. Finding that his family could not support him through his early years at the Bar he travelled to
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Percy
Maurice McLardie Sheldon Amos in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1932
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H. A. H. (1941). "Sir Maurice Sheldon Amos, K.B.E., K.C.".
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