Aurora borealis academica : Aberdeen University appreciations, 1860-1889.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Aurora borealis academica : Aberdeen University appreciations, 1860-1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    born in that city in 1810, and died in 1891. He was educated at the High School of Edinburgh, and in 1825 entered Glasgow University ; gaining the Snell Exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1829 he passed from Glasgow to the English University and graduated with honours in 1834. He studied law in Edinburgh and was called to the bar in 1835, and soon obtained one of the greatest practices that ever fell to the lot of a pleader. Solicitor-General in Lord Derby’s administration of 1852, and shortly afterwards promoted to be Lord Advocate, the same year also saw him elected Dean of Faculty ; he became Lord Justice-Clerk in 1858, and Lord President of the Court of Session in 1867, which high office he held until his death with the title of Lord Glencorse. Inglis first tried to enter Parliament for the constituency of Orkney and Shetland in 1852, but was defeated ; his second venture was more successful when he was returned for the pocket- borough of Stamford, in Lincolnshire, without opposition in 1858. But although Inglis’ services to his country as a lawyer and a judge were so distinguished, it is indisputable that as a University Reformer, in which direction his chief effort as a legislator was made, his name is entitled to rank in the highest place. His experience of the English and Scotch