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'''Mario Serracino Inglott''' was a Civil Servant, a linguist, and chess master.

Mario was born in [[Cospicua]] on 4 November 1934. His father was the well-known linguist [[Erin Serracino Inglott]]. Mario attended [[St. Aloysus College]] and the [[Lyceum]], later studying at [[Oxford University]] when receive a BA in economics.

His father was a major role model for him. Mario followed Erin in his love for the Maltese language and chess. He became Malta chess champion in 1947 at the age of 12. He eventually started taking part in international chess tournaments, including ones in Italy and Yugoslavia in 1957. For many years he served as president of the [[Malta Chess Association]]. He was also the first Maltese to be recognised by the [[International Chess Federation]] (FIDE) as an international chess arbiter.

In 1953 he was employed as a clerk at the [[Malta Dockyard]] but became a civil servant two years later. In 1963 he was transfered to [[Malta House]] in [[London]] at a time when the country was in the final stages of being granted independence from Great Britain. During the time he spent in London, he wrote several poems and short stories in Maltese and English. On returning to Malta, he worked for the Department of Industry and later the Ministry of Education, where he became the senior administrator in the Department of Sports. In 1980 he coordinated the [[Chess Olympiads in Malta]] - the largest edition up until that time. He retired from the civil service in 1985. Soon after that he became a teacher at [[Stella Maris College]].

He was a member of the [[Akkademja tal-Malti]] and served as its vice-president for a number of years. His love for the Maltese language became most evident in 1983, when he started editing the posthumous volumes of his father's masterwork Il-Miklem Malti, which remains the most extensive study of the Maltese lexicon. His own publications include a [[History of Chess in Malta between 1880 – 1990[]] and his own dictionary and thesaurus Diżżjunarju Malti, published by Merlin Library.

Mario Serracino Inglott married Joan Antida Fsadni in 1960 and together they had a daughter named Lara.

He died on 22 September 2007 at the age of 72

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