Frederick Inglefield

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Sir Frederick Inglefield
Born(1854-04-29)29 April 1854
Died8 August 1921(1921-08-08) (aged 67)
Flower Lillies, Windley, Derbyshire
Buried
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy

Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire
.

Early life

Inglefield was born on 29 April 1854 to Colonel Samuel Inglefield of the Royal Artillery.[1][Note 1] He came from a long line of naval officers; his grandfather was Rear Admiral Samuel Inglefield, his great-grandfather was Captain John Nicholson Inglefield, and his uncle was the Arctic explorer Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield.[2] He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia at the age of 13.[1]

Naval career

Inglefield became a sub-lieutenant in 1874

central battery ironclad Alexandra. At this period the Mediterranean Fleet was the foremost fleet in the Royal Navy, and it attracted the ambitious, the talented and the well-connected. As the senior lieutenant of the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, flying the flag of Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh, and with the future King George V as one of his lieutenants,[1] he benefited from the patronage of the most influential officers of the day.[Note 2] He was promoted to commander on 30 June 1889,[4] and was appointed to HMS Trafalgar, which had replaced Alexandra as flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet.[1]

He commanded the screw sloop

Naval Aide-de-Camp to King Edward VII on 12 April 1905.[12]

Inglefield was appointed

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 19 June 1911 as part of the King's coronation list.[18]

Inglefield was promoted to the rank of admiral on 4 June 1913[19] and at the outbreak of World War I, being too senior for a seagoing appointment and over 60 years of age, he was appointed the president of the "Motor-Boat Committee", which existed to co-ordinate the Motor-Boat Reserve, a collection of private craft called up to support the Royal Navy as auxiliaries.[1][20] He was placed on the retired list at his own request on 9 June 1916,[21] "in order to make room for the promotion of younger officers who are rendering important services to the Empire in this war".[1] He was later a member of the official inquiry into the loss of the RMS Lusitania which was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank with the loss of 1,198 lives south of the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on 7 May 1915.[22]

Retirement

From 1912 he was a

Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire.[23]

Family

In 1903 he married Millicent Evelyn Cecilia Crompton (1866-16 November 1950),[24] the heiress of the Derbyshire banker John Gilbert Crompton; they had two sons, Colonel John Frederick Crompton-Inglefield (who served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1938) and Gilbert Samuel Inglefield (later Sir Gilbert Samuel Inglefield ARIBA TD KCB GBE FRSA, Lord Mayor of London).[25]

Death

Inglefield died on 8 August 1921 of septic poisoning, allegedly caused after an accident while rowing,[1] at Flower Lillies, Windley, Derbyshire on 8 August 1921 at the age of 67.[2] He was buried at Turnditch church.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Some sources have him the son of Commander (later Rear Admiral) Valentine Otway Inglefield (1824–1900) and his wife Henriette Inglefield (née Thiébault) (1823–?)
  2. ^ One of his midshipmen was David Beatty.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Death of Admiral Inglefield - An Old Naval Stock", Obituary of Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield, The Times, 10 August 1921
  2. ^ a b c d "Adm. Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield KCB FRGS DL (I24518) at W. H. Auden - 'Family Ghosts'". Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  3. ^ "No. 24413". The London Gazette. 2 February 1877. p. 502.
  4. ^ "No. 25969". The London Gazette. 30 August 1889. p. 4738.
  5. ^ "No. 26647". The London Gazette. 26 July 1895. p. 4233.
  6. ^ Mackie, Colin. "British Armed Forces Directory - Part II: Royal Navy- Captains Commanding Warships" (PDF). p. 93. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36613. London. 15 November 1901. p. 4.
  8. ^ "The Coronation - Naval Review". The Times. No. 36845. London. 13 August 1902. p. 4.
  9. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36860. London. 30 August 1902. p. 4.
  10. ^ Mackie, Colin. "British Armed Forces Directory - Part II: Royal Navy- Captains Commanding Warships" (PDF). p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  11. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36897. London. 13 October 1902. p. 7.
  12. ^ "No. 27782". The London Gazette. 7 April 1905. p. 2636.
  13. ^ Inglefield Jewelry Collection[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ "No. 27918". The London Gazette. 1 June 1906. p. 3845.
  15. ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 9 February 1907. Issue 38252, col B, p. 9.
  16. ^ Messina Earthquake Awards
  17. ^ "No. 28413". The London Gazette. 6 September 1910. p. 6407.
  18. ^ "No. 28505". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 June 1911. p. 4588.
  19. ^ "No. 28726". The London Gazette. 6 June 1913. p. 3992.
  20. ^ Sea lions, greasepaint and the U-boat threat: Admiralty scientists turn to the music hall in 1916 Royal Society, 2001
  21. ^ "No. 29621". The London Gazette. 6 June 1913. p. 5828.
  22. ^ "Board of Trade". Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
  23. ^ "No. 29928". The London Gazette. 2 February 1917. p. 1177.
  24. ^ Millicent Evelyn Cecilia G Inglefield
  25. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

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Preceded by
Assistant Director Naval Intelligence

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1902–1904 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
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(As Junior Naval Lord)
 Fourth Sea Lord
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