The  late  C.  E.  Amos,  C.E. 
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He  was  often  engaged  as  a witness  in  cases  of  disputed 
patent  right  and  other  vexed  mechanical  questions ; also  as  an 
arbitrator  on  such  matters.  He  was  a member  of  the  Institute 
of  Civil  Engineers  ; of  the  Institute  of  Mechanical  Engineers, 
and  a member  of  its  Council ; also  of  the  Council  of  the  Royal 
Agricultural  Society  of  England,  and  a member  of  the  Societe 
des  Agriculteurs  de  France.  He  conducted  the  dynamometrical 
trials  of  the  agricultural  machinery  shown  in  the  Great  Inter- 
national Exhibition  of  1851  in  Hyde  Park,  was  a juror  at  the 
Paris  Exhibition  of  1855,  and  the  Universal  Exhibition  in 
1862  at  South  Kensington.  He  acted  as  English  delegate  to 
the  Agricultural  Show  at  Paris,  1856.  He  was  invited  to 
attend  the  Universal  Agricultural  Exhibition  of  Sweden  and 
Norway,  held  at  Gothenburg  in  1871,  and  received  from  the 
Sovereign,  Carl  XV.,  the  Cross  of  the  Order  of  Vasa ; also 
various  diplomas  and  medals  were  awarded  to  him.  In  addition 
to  his  official  duties  in  connection  with  the  Royal  Agricultural 
Society  of  England,  his  assistance  was  frequently  invited  by 
various  Agricultural  Societies  in  England.  On  his  retirement 
from  the  office  of  Consulting  Engineer  to  the  Royal  Agricultural 
Society  of  England,  he  was  elected  its  Honorary  Consulting 
Engineer. 
He  was  a Freemason  exalted  to  the  Royal  Arch  degree  in 
the  Grove  Chapter,  and  installed  a Knight  Templar  in  the 
Grove  Encampment  in  1866. 
In  1866  both  the  senior  partners  of  the  firm  of  Eastons  and 
Amos  retired. 
Having  become  a widower,  he  in  1360  married  the  daughter 
of  Mr.  E.  Porter,  of  Moore  Critchell,  Dorset,  and  leaves  a 
family  by  each  wife.  His  eldest  son,  James  C.  Amos,  was 
associated  with  him  in  the  firm  of  Eastons  and  Amos,  the 
second  son  being  the  head  of  an  engineering  firm  at  Hull,  and 
the  third  studying  for  the  profession  of  engineer.  He  also 
leaves  several  daughters.  He  died  on  the  12th  of  August,  1882, 
at  his  residence  at  Clapham,  in  the  seventy-seventh  year  of 
his  age. 
The  foregoing  condensed  Memoir  gives  but  a sketch  of  the 
rise,  step  by  step,  of  the  late  Charles  Edwards  Amos  in  his 
professional  career,  and  of  the  invaluable  services  which  he 
rendered  to  the  cause  of  agricultural  mechanics,  a branch  to 
which  he  always  evinced  a particular  liking,  no  doubt  the 
result  of  early  associations.  It  is  evident  that  it  was  the  com- 
bination of  agricultural  knowledge  with  practical  and  theoretical 
engineering  that  specially  fitted  him  for  the  important  position 
of  Consulting  Engineer  to  the  Society,  an  office  which  he  filled 
with  so  much  credit  to  himself,  so  much  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
