Andrew Amos (lawyer)
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Andrew Amos was a British lawyer, judge, and professor of law.
Portrait by Colesworthey Grant
The London University (1827–1828) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Amos was the first professor of English law at London University upon its establishment in 1826. The institution is now called University College London and is part of the University of London.
The title page of John Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliæ: The Translation into English Published A.D. MDCCLXXV (1825), which Amos edited
The title page of A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures (1827) by Andrew Amos and Joseph Ferard
Edward Coke
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Sir Edward Coke was an English barrister, judge, and politician. He is often considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
Andrew Amos (lawyer)
…for essays, by free and informal conversation, by repeated examinations, and by giving prizes for special studies, as, for instance, for the study of Edward Coke's writings. He repeatedly received testimonials from his pupils, and his bust was presented to University College. In 1837 Amos was appointed "fourth…
Portrait by Gilbert Jackson, 1615
Trinity College, Cambridge, where Coke studied between 1567 and 1570
The Court of King's Bench, where Coke brought his first case
Robert Cecil, Coke's political ally who acted as a staunch defender of Elizabeth I