A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Inglis, George
INGLIS. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
George Inglis, horn about July, 1787, is son of the late Admiral John Inglis.
This officer entered the Navy, 27 Aug. 1805, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Texel 64, Capt. Donald Campbell, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon, at Leith; and was soon lent, for a cruize off the coast of Norway and the Shetland islands, to the Amaranthe 18, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton. Becoming Midshipman, in May, 1806, of the Ganges 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, he assisted in that ship at the capture, 27 Sept. following, of the French 44-gun frigate Le Président, and, after escorting General Crawford’s brigade of troops to the Cape de Verde Islands, and cruizing for some time in that vicinity with a squadron commanded by Sir Sam. Hood, served under the broad pendant of Commodore Rich. Goodwin Keats in the expedition to Copenhagen. On his return to England with the 2nd battalion of the 32nd Regt., in the Princess Sophia Frederica, one of the Danish prizes, he joined the Cambrian 40, Capts. Rich. Budd Vincent and Fras. Wm. Fane, and proceeded off the east coast of Spain, where he was much employed in co-operation with the patriots, and assisted, on 31 July, 1808, in reducing the Castle of Mongat. Subsequently to his removal to the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, we find Mr. Inglis uniting, in Oct. 1809, in the chase which preceded the self-destruction, near the mouth of the Rhone, of the French ships of the line Robuste and Lion. After a servitude of more than two years at the blockade of Flushing and Brest in the Marlborough 74, Capts. Graham Moore and Matthew Henry Scott, and on the Leith station in the Clio 16, Capt. Wm. Ffarington, he successively joined, in 1812, as a passed Midshipman, the Africa 64 and St. Domingo 74, bearing the respective flags of Admirals Herbert Sawyer and Sir John Borlase Warren on the coast of North America. On 25 March, 1813, Mr. Inglis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to the Royal George, Capt. Wm. Howe Mulcaster, on, we believe. Lake Erie, where he partook, soon afterwards, of an action in which two schooners were taken from the Americans. On 10 Sept. in the same year, having removed to the Detroit 19, Capt. Root. Heriot Barclay, the senior officer of a small, miserably equipped squadron of six sail, carrying altogether 63 guns (yielding a broadside weight of 478 lbs.) and 345 men, the greater part of them nondescripts, he was further present in a most desperate action which terminated in the capture of the whole by an American force under Commodore Perry, consisting of nine excellently appointed vessels, carrying 54 guns (throwing 928 lbs. in broadside weight of metal) and 580 picked men. Shortly previous to the fatal issue of the battle, in which the British it appears lost 41 men killed and 94 wounded, and the enemy 27 killed and 96 wounded, the command, owing to the disablement of Capt. Barclay, devolved upon Lieut. Inglis, who, with a degree of calm intrepidity that reflected high credit upon him, continued the action until further resistance became impossible.[1] His late appointments were, for very brief periods, to the Boyne 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, and Ramillies 74, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 331.