Jonathan Duncan Inverarity
East India Company civil servant
About Jonathan Duncan Inverarity
Lived 1812 – 1882 (aged 69). Jonathan Duncan Inverarity was a diplomat and indian Civil Service.
Jonathan Duncan Inverarity (11 August 1812 – 28 April 1882, Rosemount, Angus) was a Scottish civil servant of the Bombay Presidency.
Inverarity was born in Mumbai, to Helen née Gleig and Dr James Inverarity who named him after his friend Jonathan Duncan. Inverarity studied at the Edinburgh Academy from 1824 to 1826 before going to Addiscombe in 1826 and Haileybury from 1828 to 1830. In 1859 he succeeded Sir Bartle Frere as Commissioners of Sind, holding the post till 1862, when he was appointed a Member of the Council in Bombay and sworn in on 24 March 1862. He retired with an annuity in 1865.
Inverarity married Maria Martha, eldest daughter of Sir John Pollard Willoughby, at Bombay in 1844. Martha died in 1871 and he later married Agnes Anne Spottiswoode, daughter of Captain Donald Oenas Mackay. They had five sons and a daughter. The eldest son John Duncan Inverarity (1847–1923) was an eminent barrister at the Bombay High Court.
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East India Company civil servant
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Jonathan Duncan Inverarity was born on 11 August 1812 in Mumbai.
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Jonathan Duncan Inverarity died on 28 April 1882 in Angus, Scotland, Rosemount, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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