Obituary Notices. 
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John Inglis, President of the Court of Session and Justice-General 
of the Court of Justiciary. By .iEneas J. G. Mackay, Esq., 
Sheriff of Fife and Kinross. 
(Read July 18, 1892.) 
John Inglis was born in George Square, Edinburgh, on 21st August 
1810, and died at Loganbank, in the parish of Glencorse, Mid- 
lothian, on 20th August 1891, a day before the completion of his 
eighty-first year. He was the youngest of four sons of the 
Keverend Dr John Inglis, the successor of Principal Kobertson, the 
historian, as minister of Old Greyfriars’ Church. The eldest was 
Harry Inglis, Writer to the Signet, between whom and John the 
fraternal bond was strengthened by mutual good offices and a closer 
intimacy, both in earlier and later life, than often falls to the lot 
of brothers. Their mother Mms Maria Moxham, daughter of 
Abraham Passmore of Eolle Farm, Devon, who again brought 
English blood into a family, the name of which indicates a remote 
English, probably Border, origin. His paternal grandfather was 
Harry Inglis, minister of Forteviot, in Perthshire — a county in 
which his father had been minister of Tibbermore before his 
appointment to Old Greyfriars’. While certain traits in his char- 
acter may be traced to the English connection on the mother’s side, 
and his education at Oxford, he continued through life a patriotic 
Scotchman, and a devoted member of the Scottish Presbyterian 
Church by law established. In its Assemblies his father was the 
chief leader of the Moderate Party, and he was reckoned one of 
the three best preachers of his time in Scotland, and it was the 
time of Chalmers. Allowing for the difference between the 
eloquence of the Assembly and Pulpit, and that of the Bar and 
Bench, the style of the son had a strong family likeness to that 
of his father. Both were distinguished by cogent reasoning, and 
facile, apt, and forcible expression ; and as these were the pro- 
duct of Nature rather than Art, it may be inferred that the style 
indicated a similarity of character which might also be traced in 
the massive features he inherited from his father. Both were felt 
