Inglis - A Douglas Sept
The name originates from the Scots word for English, and the
earliest records of it in Scotland are that of Richard Anglicus who
witnessed a Charter during the reign of David I in 1153, and Adam le
Inglis, who witnessed a confirmation Charter in 1194. Several
individuals of the name rendered homage to Edward I of England in
1296. In 1395, Sir William Inglis won a dual against the English
champion Sir Thomas Struthers and, the following year, the family
was rewarded with the Barony of Manner, becoming followers of the
House of Douglas.
In the early years of the fourteenth
century, when Douglasdale was repeatedly overrun and often held by
the English, the Inglis family tenanted the farm of Weston. Once
Inglis managed to overhear the English plans for taking the castle,
and at very great risk conveyed a warning to the Douglas. For this
and perhaps other services he was asked to name his reward, and he
replied that his greatest wish was to be buried under the same roof
as his master. Accordingly, the south transept of
St Bride's
Church was set apart as the
burial place of Inglis and his descendants for all time. So goes the
tale, and until comparatively recent years descendants of the
Douglas Inglises have been buried there.
Thereafter various
branches of the family evolved, notably of Craigend, upon whom the
Inglis Chiefship devolved following the sale of the Manner Barony in
1709, and of Cramond. Sir James Inglis of Cramond was created a
Baronet in 1687, and his son became Postmaster General of Scotland.
Rear-Admiral Charles Inglis (1731-91), younger son of Sir John
Inglis of Cramond served at sea during the French and Spanish wars.
The Baronetcy became dormant(1) in 1817 and the Cramond estate passed
to Lady Torphichen, daughter of Sir John Inglis.
Lieut-General
Sir William Inglis (1764-1835), son of a surgeon descended from a
landed family in Roxburghshire, fought in the Peninsular Wars. John
Inglis (1810-91) was Lord Justice General of Scotland in 1867 under
the name of Lord Glencorse. Elsie Inglis (1864-1917) was one of the
first women medical students at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities
and founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh entirely staffed by
women. In 1906, she founded the Scottish Women's Suffragette
Movement and, during the First World War, set up three military
hospitals in Serbia.
Inglis of Cramond, Edinburgh (22 March 1687)
Created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Sir James Inglis, 1st Baronet (1660–1688)
Sir John Inglis, 2nd Baronet (1683–1771)
Sir Adam Inglis, 3rd Baronet (1714–1772)
Sir John Inglis, 4th Baronet (c.1716–1799)
Sir Patrick Inglis, 5th Baronet (died 1817) Lived at Sunnyside.
Painted by Henry Raeburn
Sir William St Clair Inglis, 13th Baronet
Notes:
1. But, apparently not!
Sir William St Clair Inglis, 13th Baronet, is now (April 2019)
entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. I am assuming some
distant relative has traced his descent.
The Complete Baronetage, Volume IV, Page 349 states that this
baronetcy was created with remainder to "heirs male whatsoever", and
in fact lists it as "extinct or dormant". It is pretty much
impossible for such titles to become extinct as you can always go
back many generations before the original grantee. I presume this
new Baronet is some collateral relation descended from an ancestor
of the 1st baronet. I believe that the standard practice is that the
6th to 12th baronets would be retrospective acknowledgements.
See also:
• Cramond Tower
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