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Samuel Hood Inglefield CB (1783 – 24 February 1848) was a

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officer who went on to be Commander in-Chief, East Indies and China Station.

Naval career

The son of

John Nicholson Inglefield Captain (Royal Navy), Captain John Nicholson Inglefield (1748 – 7 February 1828) was an English naval officer in the Royal Navy. Biography John Nicholson Inglefield was the son of a ship's carpenter, Isaac Inglefield, and his wife, a si ...

, Inglefield joined the

in 1791.Naval Officers 1849
/ref> He was promoted to post-captain in 1807 and commanded HMS ''Bacchante'' at

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in 1807 and assisted in the capture of the Spanish privateer ''Amor de la Patria'', and intercepted a

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armed vessel.HMS Bacchante at Age of Nelson
/ref> The following year he captured the French brig ''Griffon''. By 1827 Inglefield was commanding HMS ''Ganges''. Promoted to rear admiral in 1841, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the Brazils and River Plate Station at a time when

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was underway. Inglefield took decisive action at this time to keep the

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open so ensuring continuity of trade. He became Commander in-Chief, East Indies and China Station in 1846William Loney RN
/ref> and died of apparent

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while still serving in that role in 1848.Edward Augustus Inglefield at ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
/ref> He lived at

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Family

In 1816 he married Priscilla Margaret Otway. He was father to

Edward Augustus Inglefield Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (27 March 1820 – 4 September 1894) was a Royal Navy officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s. In doing so, his expedition charted previously unexpl ...

, an admiral, inventor and Arctic explorer.Edward Augustus Inglefield at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref>

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Inglefield, Samuel 1783 births 1848 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath

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Royal Navy rear admirals Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars

Naval career

Family

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References