Sir John Inglis, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Inglis of Cramond by Allan Ramsay

Sir John Inglis of Cramond, 2nd Baronet (September 1683 – 3 March 1771) was Postmaster General for Scotland, the son and heir of Sir James Inglis, 1st Baronet of Cramond, Edinburghshire by his spouse Anne, daughter of Sir Patrick Houstoun, 1st Baronet of that Ilk. He succeeded his father in 1688.

Life[]

He was born in September 1683 and baptised at on 23 September.^[1]

Sir John married Anne Cockburn (d.1772), daughter of Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk, and had issue: four sons (below) and five daughters.^[2]

• (1714–1772), d.s.p.
• (c.1716–1799)
• Patrick Inglis, a merchant in Edinburgh.
• Rear-Admiral Charles Inglis (1731–1791)

References[]

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• The Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, by Messrs. John and John Bernard Burke, second edition, London, 1841, p. 627.

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