Amos was born in
Tyninghame, Scotland, on 24 May 1869. He first became interested in
vegetarianism when he was a teenager, in about 1886. He later worked as a
draper and married Ruth Helen Bowker Sharp (1869–1905) on 7 February 1899; they had four children, two of whom died in infancy. In the mid-1890s he was an organizer in London for the
Vegetarian Federal Union. He succeeded
Albert Broadbent as Secretary of the
Vegetarian Society (1913–1914). Amos was an opponent of
blood sports. His letters campaigning against
rabbit coursing in Surrey led to its prohibition in 1924. The League aimed to abolish the hunting of deer, foxes, hares, otters, and the coursing of hares and rabbits. His published criticism of the RSPCA caused an internal conflict and because of this Greenwood resigned from the League in 1927 and Bell resigned in 1931. The League began producing a monthly journal
Cruel Sports which Amos edited. In the January 1927 edition, Amos noted that "little has been done either by religion or education to stem the tide of cruelty involved in hunting." In 1935, Amos was jailed briefly for throwing a copy of
Henry Stephens Salt's
Creed of Kinship through a stained glass window at
Exeter Cathedral during evensong, as a protest against the church's endorsement of hunting. Suffering for years from a bronchial illness, he was eventually forced to retire from his work with the League at the end of 1936. Amos died in
Hendon,
north London, on 22 October 1946, at the age of 77. == Selected publications ==