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was nominated a Companion of the Bath (Military Division) in 1869. Sir £. Inglefield is the anthor of "A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin^" and of pamphlets on " Maritime Warfare," " Naval Tac- tical," and "Territrial Magnet- ism."

INGLIS, The Right Hon. John, of Glencorse, son of the Bev. Dr. Inglis, minister of the old Grev- friars Church, Edinburgh, born in 1810, was educated at Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1834, M.A. in 1837, and Hon. D.C.L. in 1859. Having been called to the Scotch bar in 1835, he rose rapidly in his profession, was appointed Solicitor- General for Scotland in Lord Der- by's first administration in 1852, and a few months afterwards was made Lord- Advocate, a post which he resumed in Lord Derby's second administration in 1858, in which year he was raised to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland. He represented Stamford from Feb. to JxJy, 1858, and was for many years Dean of Faculty. In 1859 he was sworn a member of the Privy Coun- cil, and was made Lord Justice General and President of the Court of Session in Feb., 1867. He was installed as Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, April 12, 1869, and in the same year he re- ceived from the University of Glasgow the degree of LL.D.

INGRA.M, John H., was born in London Nov. 16, 1849. In 1863 he published a small volume of verse, subsequently suppressed. This was followed, in 1868, by "Flora Sym- bolica," a work on the folk lore of flowers, which has passed through numerous editions. In 1873 he commenced publishing articles in English and American periodicals, calSng attention to misrepresenta- tions about the life and character of Edgar Allan Poe, and in Oct., 1874, embodied some of the results of his investigations in a short "Memoir of Poe," prefixed to a

4 vol. edition of the poet's works. This memoir created some excite- ment in the literary world, and has generally been deemed to have altered the previously prevalent impression of Poe's character. It has been frequently reprinted in England and America, and has been translated into several Euro- pean languages. Bevised and abridged, this memoir was pub- lished in 1877, in the Baltimore "Poe Memorial" volume. In 1880 Mr. Ingram's labours in this direc- tion culminated in an exhaustive two volume biography of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1879, under the name of " Don Felix de Salamanca," he published a jeu d'esprit, entitled, " The Philosophy of Handwriting," wherein the characters of several celebrated contemporaries were as- sumed to be portrayed by their calligraphy. In 1881 he published avomme of "Fairy Tales," trans- lated from the Spanish of " Feman Caballero," and in 1882 a collec- tion of historical sketches, styled "Claimants to Eoyalty." He is editing a series of original biogra- phical manuals writt^ by ladies, entitled, "Eminent Women," and has in the press a volume on historical ghost stories, entitled, "The Haunted Homes of England." His latest work, a life of "Oliver Madox-Brown," the young poet- painter, who died in 1874, has just appeared. He is a contributor to many of the leading reviews of Europe and America, and has oc- casionally lectured on behalf of educational institutions. He holds an appointment in the Civil Service. INNESS, Geobgb, landscape painter, born at Newburg, New York, May 1, 1825. At the age of sixteen he went to New York to study engraving, but ill health compelled him to relinquish it, and to return to his parent's home, then at Newark, New Jersey. There he spent the next four years paint- ing and sketching, when he again went to New York, and «5ter