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Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield, (29 April 1854 – 8 August 1921) was a

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officer who served as

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, was appointed as a Grand Officer of the

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and commanded auxiliary patrol forces in World War I. After retirement he was a Deputy Lieutenant of

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Early life

Inglefield was born on 29 April 1854 to Colonel Samuel Inglefield of the Royal Artillery.Some sources have him the son of Commander (later Rear Admiral) Valentine Otway Inglefield (1824–1900) and his wife Henriette Inglefield (née Thiébault) (1823–?) He came from a long line of naval officers; his grandfather was Rear Admiral

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, his great-grandfather was Captain

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, and his uncle was the Arctic explorer Admiral Sir

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. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship at the age of 13.

Naval career

Inglefield became a sub-lieutenant in 1874 and was promoted to

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on 30 January 1877. He joined the screw corvette in 1878 on the East Indies Station and the flagship of the Channel Fleet, , in 1882. She was temporarily detached to the Mediterranean to take part in the

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, and Inglefield was awarded the Khedive's bronze star. In April 1885 he was appointed as the first lieutenant of the gunvessel , and in this role was landed in the Eastern Sudan to take part in the Second Suakin Expedition. He was clearly highly though of, because his next appointment, in February 1886, was as the first lieutenant of "the most-sought-after sea-going ship in the Service", the

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. 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

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as one of his lieutenants, he benefited from the patronage of the most influential officers of the day.One of his midshipmen was David Beatty. He was promoted to commander on 30 June 1889, and was appointed to , which had replaced ''Alexandra'' as flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. He commanded the screw sloop on the South America Station, and was promoted to

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on 30 June 1895 while in command of her. He then commanded the protected cruiser , flagship of the East Indies Station, from January 1896 to March 1898. He left ''Bonaventure'' to command , the guardship at Gibraltar. In November 1900 he was appointed in command of the new

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HMS ''Glory'', and took her to serve at the

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. He was back home when appointed in command of the battleship on 26 November 1901, when she was serving on the Mediterranean station, and took her home the following year, taking part in the

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held at

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on 16 August 1902 for the

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of King

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, before he paid her off at Portsmouth on 29 August 1902. From 15 October 1902 until 1904 he served as Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence, as head of the Mobilisation division. He was appointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to

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on 12 April 1905. Inglefield was appointed

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in recognition of services rendered by the squadron during the

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in 1908. He hauled down his flag in ''Grafton'' in February 1909. From 1909 to 1912 he was Admiral Commanding the Coastguard and Reserves. Promoted to the rank of vice admiral on 24 August 1910, he was appointed a

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(KCB) on 19 June 1911 as part of the King's coronation list. Inglefield was promoted to the rank of admiral on 4 June 1913 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. He was placed on the retired list at his own request on 9 June 1916, "in order to make room for the promotion of younger officers who are rendering important services to the Empire in this war". He was later a member of the official inquiry into the loss of the RMS ''Lusitania'' which was torpedoed by a German

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and sank with the loss of 1,198 lives south of the

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on 7 May 1915.

Retirement

From 1912 he was a

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for

and in retirement he was a Deputy Lieutenant of

Family

In 1903 he married Millicent Evelyn Cecilia Crompton (1866-16 November 1950), the heiress of the Derbyshire banker John Gilbert Crompton; they had two sons, Colonel John Frederick Crompton-Inglefield (who served as

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in 1938) and Gilbert Samuel Inglefield (later Sir Gilbert Samuel Inglefield ARIBA TD KCB GBE FRSA, Lord Mayor of London).Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

Death

Inglefield died on 8 August 1921 of septic poisoning, allegedly caused after an accident while rowing,"Death of Admiral Inglefield - An Old Naval Stock", Obituary of Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield, ''The Times'', 10 August 1921 at Flower Lillies, Windley, Derbyshire on 8 August 1921 at the age of 67. He was buried at Turnditch church.

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