Name James Inglis | ||
Role Former Minister of Public Instruction Died December 15, 1908, Strathfield, Australia Previous office Minister of Public Instruction (1887–1889) Books Oor Ain Folk: Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot Auld Times | ||
James Inglis (24 November 1845 – 15 December 1908) was a writer and politician in colonial New South Wales.
Inglis was the son of Rev. Robert Inglis, M.A., by his marriage with Helen Brand, was born at Edzell, Forfarshire, Scotland, and educated at University of Edinburgh. He visited New Zealand in 1864, went to India at the end of 1866, and to Australia after extensive travel and work in India and the East, in search of health. At the end of 1877 Mr. Inglis saw considerable official service in India; was Famine Commissioner in Bhangulpore in 1875, and Executive Commissioner for the Government of India to the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880-81.
Having settled in New South Wales, he was returned to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for New England in 1885, and was Minister of Public Instruction in the Parkes ministry (1887–1889) from January 1887 to January 1889. He wrote to the press under the signature "Maori," and authored "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier" (Macmillan & Co., London, 1880), "Our Australian Cousins" (Macmillan, 1882), "Our New Zealand Cousins" (Sampson Low & Co., London, 1886), "Tent Life in Tiger Land" (Sampson Low, 1888), and other works. Inglis married Mary Nichol (died 1903) in Sydney in October 1879.
Inglis died in Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 15 December 1908.