Sheldon Amos

Sheldon Amos (1 June 1835 – 3 January 1886)^[1] was an English jurist.

Sheldon Amos was born in St Pancras, London, the son of lawyer Andrew Amos and his wife, Margaret. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar as a member of the Middle Temple in 1862.^[2] He was invited by F. D. Maurice to teach at The Working Men''s College, with fellow Cambridge graduates and friends Richard Chevenix Trench and J. R. Seeley.^[3] In 1869 he was appointed to the chair of jurisprudence in University College, London, and in 1872 became reader under the council of legal education and examiner in constitutional law and history to the University of London. Failing health led to his resignation of those offices, and he took a voyage to the South Seas.

He resided for a short time at Sydney, and finally settled in Egypt, where he practised as an advocate. After the bombardment of Alexandria, and the reorganization of the Egyptian judicature, he was appointed judge of the court of appeal, but being without any previous experience of administrative work he found the strain too great for his health.