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[[File:John frederick inglis.jpg|thumb|right|250px| John Frederic Inglis]]

'''John Frederic Inglis''' (16 July 1853 – 27 February 1923) was a Scottish [[amateur sports]]man who became a major in the [[Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)]]. He played [[cricket]] for [[Kent County Cricket Club]] and [[association football|football]] for the [[Wanderers F.C.|Wanderers]] and for Scotland in a [[England v Scotland representative matches (1870–1872)|representative match]] in 1871.

==Family==
Inglis was born in [[Peshawar]], India where his father, Lieutenant-Colonel [[John Eardley Inglis]] was serving in the [[32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot]]. His mother was [[Julia, Lady Inglis|Julia Selina Thesiger]], daughter of [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford]].<ref name = "JFI">{{cite web|title=John Frederic Inglis|url=http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6117&tree=Kings|publisher=family search|access-date=1 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330202655/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6117&tree=Kings|archive-date=30 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was the first surviving child of the marriage; his siblings were:<ref name=REI/><ref name = "Tree">{{cite web|title=Inglis family tree|url=http://www.inglis.uk.com/coldstoreindex.htm|publisher=inglis.uk.com|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>
* John Frederic Inglis (b. 1852, died an infant)
* Charles George Inglis (1855–1923), who became a tea planter on the Agra Kandy Estate in Ceylon.<ref name = "Tree"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Charles George Inglis|url=http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6119&tree=Kings|publisher=Family Search|access-date=1 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330202353/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6119&tree=Kings|archive-date=30 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Alfred Inglis|Alfred Markham Inglis]] (1856–1919), who played cricket for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]]
* Victoria Alexandrina Inglis (1859–1929), who married Hubert Ashton, and was mother of cricketers [[Hubert Ashton|Hubert]], [[Gilbert Ashton|Gilbert]], [[Percy Ashton|Percy]] and [[Claude Ashton|Claude]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Victoria Alexandrina Inglis|url=http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6126&tree=Kings|publisher=Family Search|access-date=1 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330202349/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6126&tree=Kings|archive-date=30 March 2012}}</ref>
* Julia Mathilda Inglis (1861–1929), who married Sir George Herman Collier of the India Office<ref>{{cite web|title=Julia Mathilda Inglis|url=http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6127&tree=Kings|publisher=Family Search|access-date=1 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330202356/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6127&tree=Kings|archive-date=30 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Rupert Edward Inglis]] (1863–1916), who was an England international rugby player and became a minister in the Church of England before serving as a chaplain in the First World War and was killed during the [[Battle of the Somme]].<ref name=REI>{{cite web|title=Rupert Edward Inglis|url=http://www.inglis.uk.com/RUPERT%20EDWARD%20INGLIS%20thiepval.htm|publisher=inglis.uk.com|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>

Inglis was married to Janet Alice Thornhill, daughter of Rev. William Thornhill;<ref name = "JFI"/> they had no children.<ref name = "Tree"/>

==Early life==
By June 1857, his father was [[second-in-command]] under [[Sir Henry Lawrence]] at [[Lucknow]], where the British residency was under siege by Indian rebels. Lawrence was killed during the early days of the [[Siege of Lucknow|siege]], and as a result Col. Inglis took command of the British forces. Mrs. Inglis kept a diary of the events during the siege, which lasted until November, when the British were evacuated following the relief of the town by General [[Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde|Colin Campbell]]. Her diary was published in 1892.<ref>{{cite book|last=Inglis|first=Julia Selina|title=The siege of Lucknow: a diary|year=1892|publisher=James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WTkoAAAAYAAJ&q=Martiniere%20Lucknow|author-link=Julia, Lady Inglis}}</ref><ref name = "Diary">{{cite web|last=Inglis|first=Julia Selina|title=The Siege of Lucknow: a Diary|url=http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/inglis/lucknow/lucknow.html|work=A Celebration of Woman Writers|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>

In the diary she often talks about keeping the "boys" and the "baby" (Alfred) safe during the siege and retreat:<blockquote>This was Johnny's fourth birthday, a sad one to us all. We managed to get some toys for Johnny from a merchant inside. (16 July) Johnny was not well to-day, and I feared he might be sickening for small-pox. (31 July) Johnny's rosy cheeks, which he never lost, excited great admiration; he passed most of his time in the square next to us with the Sikhs, who were very fond of him, and used to give him chappatties (native bread), though they could not have had much to eat themselves, poor men! (28 August) Mrs. Case and Johnny were walking in the square next to ours to-day, when a Sikh officer passed them, and directly afterwards he was hit in the arm by a bullet. No place was really safe, and I never liked having the children out of my sight. (18 October) During the siege, we had picked up a little white hen, which used to run about and pick up what it could. Just before Colonel Campbell became so very ill, we had decided to kill and eat it, when one morning Johnny ran in and said, 'Oh, mamma, the white hen has laid an egg!' We took it at once to Colonel Campbell, it being a great luxury in those days. The hen laid one every day for him till he died, and then ceased for the rest of the siege; but we would not kill it then. (12 November) I had at first put the two boys into a dhoolie with their ayah, but they got separated from us, and it was fully a quarter of an hour before I found them, so I would not let them go from me again . . . poor baby, who was very thirsty, cried louder for it [water] than I had ever heard him before. With difficulty I pacified him, and succeeded in getting him to sleep. (19 November)<ref name = "Diary"/></blockquote>

Following the retreat from Lucknow, Mrs. Inglis and her three children returned to England on board the SS ''[[SS Ava (1855)|Ava]]''; the ship set out from Calcutta for Suez on 10 February 1858, but ran aground off [[Pigeon Island National Park|Pigeon Island]], about 12 miles from [[Trincomalee]], Ceylon on 16 February.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kainic|first=Pascal|title=Another P & O Steamer lost: The Ava|url=http://www.oceantreasures.org/rubrique,the-ava,1090657.html|publisher=oceantreasures.org|access-date=1 May 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907165734/http://www.oceantreasures.org/rubrique,the-ava,1090657.html|archive-date=7 September 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Ava |url=http://www.gregormacgregor.com/Tod&Macgregor/Ava_93.htm |work=Tod & Macgregor Shiplist|publisher=gregormacgregor.com|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref> The passengers and crew were rescued after spending a night in the ship's boats.<blockquote>Johnny was delighted when [the waves] broke over the boat, and his merry laugh sounded sadly in my ears, for I quite thought that a watery grave awaited each one of us.</blockquote>

The family eventually reached [[Alexandria]] before travelling on to [[Southampton]], arriving there in early March.<ref name = "Diary"/>

Inglis was educated at [[Charterhouse School]], where he was enrolled in 1864.<ref>{{cite web|last=Parish|first=William Douglas|authorlink=William Douglas Parish|title=List of Carthusians, 1800–1879|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/List_of_Carthusians,_1800%E2%80%931879/I|publisher=Wikisource|access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>

==Sporting career==
At Charterhouse, Inglis was a member of the school [[cricket]] XI between 1868 and 1871.<ref>{{cite web|title=Other matches played by John Inglis|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Kent/Players/30/30533/Other_matches.html|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2 May 2011|archive-date=8 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108061757/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Kent/Players/30/30533/Other_matches.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> His only [[first class cricket]] appearance came for [[Kent County Cricket Club]] against [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] at [[Lord's]] in May 1883 when he scored 19 runs as MCC were defeated by an innings and 78 runs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Kent|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Kent/Scorecards/2/2682.html|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2 May 2011|date=24–25 May 1883|archive-date=8 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108061809/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Kent/Scorecards/2/2682.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In his final year at Charterhouse, Inglis was selected to represent Scotland at [[association football|football]] in the third of a [[England v Scotland representative matches (1870–1872)|series of international matches]]; the match, played at the [[Kennington Oval]] on 25 February 1871, ended in a 1–1 draw.<ref>{{cite web|title=England 1 Scotland 1 |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Seas1872-00/1870-71/M00UOSco1871.html |publisher=englandfootballonline |access-date=2 May 2011 |date=25 February 1871 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909225519/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Seas1872-00/1870-71/M00UOSco1871.html |archive-date= 9 September 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= England 1 Scotland 1 (Match report)|url=http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/images/1871/1871022502.htm |publisher=London Hearts|page= 2 |access-date=2 May 2011|date=25 February 1871}}</ref> Inglis was later a member of the [[Wanderers F.C.|Wanderers]] club.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Wanderers F.C. – "Five times F.A. Cup winners"|last= Cavallini|first= Rob | publisher=Dog N Duck Publications |year=2005| isbn=0-9550496-0-1|page=108 }}</ref>

==Military career==
On leaving school, Inglis enlisted in the [[62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot]] being appointed a [[Sub-Lieutenant]] on 12 February 1873<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23947 |page=586|date=11 February 1873 }}</ref> and promoted to Lieutenant on the same day.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24247 |page=4570|date=21 September 1875 }}</ref>

On 11 May 1878, he was appointed as an Instructor of Musketry<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24607 |page=4265|date=23 July 1878 }}</ref> before being appointed as [[aide-de-camp]] to Major-General G. S. Young, Commanding the Troops in the Belfast District on 30 August 1883.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25294 |page=6312|date=7 December 1883 }}</ref> By now, the regiment had been amalgamated into [[The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)]].

He was subsequently promoted to [[Captain (land)|Captain]] on 31 December 1887,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25784 |page=819|date=7 February 1888 }}</ref> to [[Adjutant]] on 22 February 1888<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25789 |page=1155|date=21 February 1888}}</ref> and finally to Major on 19 March 1890.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26038 |page=1970|date=1 April 1890}}</ref>

Inglis died on 27 February 1923 at [[Littleham]], Devon.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Inglis |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30533/30533.html|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2 May 2011}}</ref>

==References==
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