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He went througli tbe High School CiuTiculum in this city, and con- 
tinued his studies at the University of Glasgow, from which, with 
a Snell ' Exhibition, he proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, 
graduating there as B.A. in 1834, as M.A. in 1837, and as D.C.L. 
in 1859. He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1835, and about 
nine years after was appointed an Advocate-Depute. On the 
return of the Conservative party to power in 1852, and during 
Lord Derby’s short administration, Mr Inglis filled the office of 
Solicitor General, and afterwards of Lord Advocate. The latter 
office he ceased to hold on the fall of Lord Derby’s Government, 
but when the Conservatives returned to power in 1858 he was 
reappointed Lord Advocate, and sat in the House of Commons for 
the borough of Stamford. It was in this year that he succeeded in 
carrying through Parliament the Scottish Universities Act, by which 
he procured a new Constitution for the University of his native 
city, and it was only a natural thing that when the vacancy 
occurred, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. 
He had previously been called on to fill the office of Dean of the 
Faculty of Advocates. In 1858 he continued in Parliament till 
he was raised to the Bench as Lord Justice Clerk. In 1867 he 
was promoted to the Presidency of the First Division of the Court 
of Session, and became Lord Justice General of Scotland. He 
adorned the bar with great gifts of eloquence and legal acumen. 
As a judge it has been said of him that his decisions were based 
upon accurate and exhaustive knowledge of the law in all its details, 
and were expressed with a clearness of statement that made his 
judgments models of legal and scholarly argument, whilst Counsel 
received from him unbounded courtesy. He died on the 20th of 
August last. 
Under any circumstances it would be little short of an imperti- 
nence on my part to offer any detailed character of Lord Justice 
General Inglis in his forensic and judicial relations. 
Fortunately for me this has been admirably done in a faithful 
and discriminating biography by my learned friend Sheriff Hlneas 
Mackay, in the number for October last of Blackwood’s Magazine. 
I may be permitted again, on the score of longstanding acquaint- 
ance, to record my esteem of John Inglis as a personal friend. I 
may be held entitled to do this, when I state that our acquaintance 
