Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amos, Andrew
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AMOS, ANDREW (1791–1860)
Lawyer : born in India, 1791 : son of James Amos, merchant : educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge : Fellow, 1813 : called to the bar by the Middle Temple : had a large practice : Recorder of Oxford, Nottingham, and Banbury : a member of the Criminal Law Commission for some years : Professor of English Law at University College, London, 1829–37 : Legal Member (succeeding Macaulay) of the Supreme Council of the Governor-General, 1838–42 : had much to do with the abolition of slavery in India, and the framing of the Penal Code. On return to England he became a County Court Judge, and Downing Professor of Laws at Cambridge : wrote on a number of legal and literary subjects : died April 18, 1860.