Alan Amos

Alan Thomas Amos (born 10 November 1952) is a British politician, currently a Conservative (formerly Labour) councillor and Mayor (2014-2015) of Worcester City Council

He attended the independent St Albans School. He studied PPE at St John's College, Oxford. From the Institute of Education, he gained a PGCE in 1976.

From 1976-84, he was an Economics teacher, and a sixth form Form-teacher, at Dame Alice Owen's School in Hertfordshire. From 1986-7, he was Assistant Principal of Davies's College of Further Education (now called Davies's Independent 6th Form College) on Old Gloucester Street in Queen's Square.

From 1978-87 he was a Conservative councillor on Enfield Borough Council.

At the 1983 general election, he stood unsuccessfully in Walthamstow.

Amos was elected Member of Parliament for Hexham in the 1987 General Election.

In Parliament, Amos was known for his right wing views, e.g., he believed rapists and muggers should be flogged. He campaigned against tobacco advertising.

Shortly before the 1992 general election on Saturday 7 March 1992, he was pictured by The Sun, and was cautioned by police after an alleged "childish and stupid" indecency incident on Hampstead Heath and he did not fight his seat at the election.

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