Ernest Alexander Inglis

Born: Ernest Alexander Inglis

April 16, 1887

Middletown, CT

Died: December 9, 1972

Middletown, CT

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Spouse: Agnes Inglis (m. 1912)

Children: H. Thompson Inglis, Marion Waring, Jean Inglis Law, Sandy Inglis, and Dorothy Pritchard

Parents: Henry Dick Inglis and Sarah Emeline Horton Inglis

Education

• Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT: 1904-08
• Yale Law School, New Haven, CT: high honors, 1911

Career

• Practiced law in Middletown
• State's Attorney for Middlesex County
• Judge of the Superior Court: Dec. 1, 1930-March, 1950
• Presided over Waterbury corruption trial, receiving nationwide attention: 1938-39
• Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut: March, 1950-October, 1953
• Chief Justice: October, 1953-1957
• State Referee

Accomplishments

Middletown High School yearbook, 1904: "Ernest Alexander Inglis / Class President (1,2); Class Foot Ball team (2); Junior Promenade Committee (3); Member M.H.S.D.S. (3,4); Entertainment Committee (4); M.H.S. Foot Ball team (4); Chairman Base Ball Committee M.H.S.A.A. (4); Associate Editor Orange and Black (4); Graduation Essay."

A N.Y. Times article of Nov. 2, 1929, announced that Ernest Alexander Inglis would be lecturing on criminal law at the Yale Law School for the second term. A Times article of 1935 said that he granted a divorce decree to James Thurber.

Ernest A. Inglis Memorial Resolution

Agnes Inglis biographical letters

Wesleyan University class of '08 letter