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[[File:J. D. Inverarity.jpg|thumb|Commemorative portrait in the Bombay High Court]]

'''John Duncan Inverarity''' (7 January 1847, Bombay – 4 December 1923, Bombay<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary: John Duncan Inverarity|pages=822–823|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47562272| year=1924| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society| volume=29|author=Anon.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Dundee Courier |date=7 December 1923 |title=Rosemount Man Dies in India |page=8 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19231207/159/0008 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription}}</ref>) was an eminent barrister and naturalist who worked in Bombay.

John Duncan Inverarity was son of [[Jonathan Duncan Inverarity]] (1812 - 1882) and Maria Martha Willoughby and was born in Bombay in 1847. He went to study in England and studied at Cheltenham College.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cheltenham College Register 1841-1889 |year=1890| editor=Hunter, Andrew Alexander| publisher=George Bell and Sons| place= London| url=https://archive.org/stream/cheltenhamcolle00huntgoog#page/n194/mode/1up/ |page=153}}</ref> He joined as a Barrister in Bombay in 1869. He was called to bar at the [[Inner Temple]] in 1870.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/lawmagazineandl08compgoog#page/n396/mode/2up/|page=886|title=Calls to the bar| journal=The Law Magazine and Law Review| volume=29| year=1870}}</ref> Apart from being a barrister in the Bombay High Court he was a keen outdoorsman and big game hunter and one of the early members of the [[Bombay Natural History Society]], serving as Vice President of the Society from 1897 till his death.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP18880823.2.45|newspaper=The Press|title=Something new about the tiger|date=23 August 1888|page=6}}</ref> He contributed numerous short notes to the Journal of the BNHS on the tiger, water buffalo, as well as small game as well as entries on tiger hunting in the ''Encyclopedia of Sport'' (1898).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Inverarity, JD|year=1888| title=Unscientific notes on the tiger| journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=3|issue=3|pages=144–154}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Inverarity, JD |year=1895| title=The Indian Wild Buffalo|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=10|pages=41–52}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediaofs02suff#page/464/mode/2up|pages=464–470|chapter=Tiger|title=The Encyclopaedia of Sport. Volume 2|publisher=Lawrence and Bullen|place=London|year=1898}}</ref> He was attacked by a lioness that he was hunting near [[Berbera]] and the incident gathered considerable news coverage.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Bombay Barrister and the Lioness. A terrible encounter |newspaper=The Star |date=17 December 1889 |page=4 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000184/18891217/030/0004}}</ref> He recounted the event in the ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' and wrote about how surprisingly painless the attack was.<ref>{{cite journal|pages= 232–239| url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofbombay781981bomb#page/236/mode/2up/|author=Ali, Salim| title=Bombay Natural History Society- the founders, the builders and the guardians. Part 2| journal=Bombay Natural History Society| volume=78| issue=1|year=1981}}</ref> He married Margaret Eweretta, elder daughter of F.G. Forsyth-Grant of Kincardineshire in 1896.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/stream/armorialfamilies02foxd#page/1028/mode/1up/|page=1028| title=Armorial Families. A directory of gentlemen of coat-armor| editor=Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles| edition=7th|year=1929| place=London| publisher=Hurst and Blackett}}</ref>

In James Joyce's book ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'', the main character, Stephen Daedalus, owns a copy of [[Horace]]'s verses owned by the brothers John and William Duncan Inverarity with notes in Latin pencilled on the margin.

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==External links==
* [http://hammurabitablet.com/index.php/2017/01/08/glimpses-of-legal-legends-john-duncan-inverarity/ Legal Legends]

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