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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography Vol 29 written by Sidney Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 29: Inglis-John Inglis was a keen golfer, and was once elected to the annual honorary captaincy of the If club of St. Andrews. On his estate ofg corsehetookaspecial intmestinthe cultivation Of trees. Tho h latterly some what broken in bodily heal he contmued in office to the close of his life. He died, after a few days of tration, at his residence of Loganbank, mothian. On 20 Aug. 1891, 'ust before com lstin his ei htyl-tirst ear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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