Samuel Inglefield

Rear Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield CB (1783 – 24 February 1848) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander in-Chief, East Indies and China Station.

Samuel Inglefield
Born1783
Died24 February 1848
Bombay[1]
Allegiance Great Britain
 United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1791–1848
RankRear Admiral
Commands heldHMS Ganges
Brazils and River Plate Station
East Indies and China Station
Battles/warsBattle of Vuelta de Obligado
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Uruguayan Civil War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

The son of John Nicholson Inglefield, Inglefield joined the Royal Navy in 1791.[2] He was promoted to post-captain in 1807[3] and commanded HMS Bacchante at Jamaica in 1807 and assisted in the capture of the Spanish privateer Amor de la Patria,[4] and intercepted a Spanish armed vessel.[5] The following year he captured the French brig Griffon.[5]

By 1827 Inglefield was commanding HMS Ganges.[6] Promoted to rear admiral in 1841,[2] he was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the Brazils and River Plate Station[7] at a time when Uruguayan Civil War was underway.[8] Inglefield took decisive action at this time to keep the Paraná River open so ensuring continuity of trade.[9] He became Commander in-Chief, East Indies and China Station in 1846[10] and died of apparent heat stroke while still serving in that role in 1848.[1][11]

He lived at Orpington in Kent.[12]

Family

In 1816 he married Priscilla Margaret Otway.[2] He was father to Edward Augustus Inglefield, an admiral, inventor and Arctic explorer.[13]

See also
  • O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Inglefield, Samuel Hood" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References
  1. "Rear Admiral Inglefield". The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 184: 661. June 1848.
  2. Naval Officers 1849
  3. Item reference ADM 9/3/403 National Archives]
  4. "No. 16104". The London Gazette. 29 December 1807. p. 8.
  5. HMS Bacchante at Age of Nelson
  6. Biography of John Alexander Duntze R.N.
  7. The Buckle Papers National Archives
  8. W.L. Clowes on the 1845 Anglo-French action in Uruguay
  9. Pax Britannica: The Parana
  10. William Loney RN
  11. Edward Augustus Inglefield at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  12. Orpington Tithe award schedule – signed 30 June 1843 Kent Archaeology
  13. Edward Augustus Inglefield at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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