John Duncan Inverarity

[3] He inherited some property of the Bombay governor Jonathan Duncan as well as a portrait of him made by Masquerier.

[9][10][11] He was attacked by a lioness that he was hunting near Berbera in 1889, an incident that gathered considerable news coverage.

[12] He recounted the event in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society[13] and wrote about how surprisingly painless the attack was.

[4] 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.

On the day of his death Inverarity attended court and felt unwell and was taken to St. George's Hospital where he died of angina pectoris at 9 pm.