See also:JOHN See also:INGLIS See also:GLENCORSE
, Lox) (1810—1891), Scottish See also:judge, son of a See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 21st of See also:August 181o
.
From See also:Glasgow University he went to Ballioi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
He was admitted a member of the See also:Faculty of See also:Advocates, and soon became known as an eloquent See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant. successful pleader
.
In 1852 he was made See also:solicitor-See also:general for
See also:Scotland in See also:Lord See also:Derby's first See also:ministry, three months later becoming Lord See also:Advocate
.
In 1858 he resumed this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in Lord Derby's second See also:administration, being returned to the See also:House of See also:Commons as member for See also:Stamford
.
He was responsible for the See also:Universities of Scotland See also:Act of 1858, and in the same See also:year he was elevated to the See also:bench as lord See also:justice clerk
.
In 1867 he was made lord justice general of Scotland and lord See also:president of the See also:court of session, taking the See also:title of Lord See also:Glencorse
.
Outside his judicial duties he was responsible for much useful public See also:work, particularly in the See also:department of higher See also:education
.
In 1869 he was elected See also:chancellor of Edinburgh University, having already been See also:rector of the university of Glasgow
.
He died on the 20th August 1891
.
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