James Inglis (politician)

[1] He visited New Zealand in 1864 to join the gold rush at Timaru, went to India at the end of 1866 where his brother Alexander was a Calcutta tea merchant.

He settled there as an indigo planter and indulged in sport in his spare time and wrote under the pen name "Maori".

In early 1903, Inglis purchased the rights to “Waltzing Matilda” and asked Marie Cowan, the wife of one of his managers, to try her hand at turning it into an advertising jingle.

Her song, published in 1903, grew in popularity, and Cowan's arrangement remains the best-known version of "Waltzing Matilda".

[4][3][5] Inglis wrote to the press under the signature "Maori," and, in 1879, served as editor of the Newcastle Morning Herald.

[3] Inglis died in Strathfield, Sydney, of kidney disease on 15 October 1908[6] and was buried in the Presbyterian section of Rookwood cemetery.