Alexander Inglis (died 1496) was a Scottish cleric and royal clerk. He was the son of one George Inglis and his wife Margeret.
[Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 78.] At some point in his life he had attended
university
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and obtained a
Licentiate in
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[ In 1477 he became ]Dean
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of the diocese of Dunkeld
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History
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, and in 1480 became Archdeacon of St Andrews. On 17 September 1483, after the death of Bishop James Livingston, he was elected to succeed the latter as Bishop of Dunkeld
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.[Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 98; Dowden, ''Bishops of Scotland'', p. 78.] Inglis ran into difficulty on 22 October, when the Chancellor of the diocese of Aberdeen
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, George Brown George Brown may refer to:
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, was also provided as Bishop of Dunkeld.[ Inglis was styled Bishop-elect in Scotland until 1485, but on 13 June 1484, Brown had been consecrated at the ]Papal see
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. Inglis continued to hold his previous posts as Archdeacon
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and Dean until his death in 1496.[Watt, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', pp. 98, 105, 307-8.]
Notes
References
* Dowden, John
John Dowden /d͡ʒɒn ˈdaʊdən/ (29 June 1840 – 30 January 1910) was an Irish-born bishop and ecclesiastical historian. He served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the Bishop of Edinburgh.
Life
He was born in Cork on 29 June 1840, ...
, ''The Bishops of Scotland'', ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
* Watt, D.E.R., ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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15th-century Scottish Roman Catholic bishops
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