Background
The only son of a Scottish advocate, Inglis was born in Edinburgh, and was educated for a business career.
The only son of a Scottish advocate, Inglis was born in Edinburgh, and was educated for a business career.
He spent time travelling abroad. Foreign a short time before 1830 he edited a local newspaper at Chesterfield in Derbyshire, but shortly set off on further foreign traveling In 1832 Inglis went to the Channel islands, and edited a Jersey newspaper, The British Critic, for two years.
Finally in London, he contributed to Colburn"s New Monthly Magazine his last literary work, Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote, with illustrations by George Cruikshank.
He died of disease of the brain, at his residence in Bayham Terrace, Regent"s Park, on Friday, 20 March 1835.