{{Short description|English composer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Auguste Charles Joseph Onesime Chevalier''' (28 September 1862 – 24 February 1940),<ref name="death">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''</ref><ref>''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995''</ref> known as '''Charles Ingle''',<ref name="FDHG">{{cite web|title=Albert Chevalier and 'My Old Dutch'|url=http://www.jeremy-clarke.freeserve.co.uk/Chevalier.htm|accessdate=7 December 2010|author=Felbridge & District History Group|year=2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727190836/http://www.jeremy-clarke.freeserve.co.uk/Chevalier.htm|archivedate=27 July 2011}}</ref> was an English composer. Ingle was the brother and manager<ref name="Banham">{{cite book|title=The Cambridge Guide to Theatre|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh/page/192 192]|author=Martin Banham|year=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-43437-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto0000banh/page/192}}</ref> of performer Albert Chevalier.<ref name="Morris">{{cite web|title=Albert Chevalier|url=http://www.amaranthdesign.ca/musichall/past/cheval.htm|work=The English Music Hall|accessdate=7 December 2010|author=Paul Morris|year=2009}}</ref> Ingle was one of six children. He had two brothers, Albert and Bertram; and a sister, Adéle. The two other children died in infancy. Their father, Jean Onesime Chevalier, was born in France.<ref name="Chevalier19">{{cite book|title=Albert Chevalier, a Record by Himself|page=19|author=Albert Chevalier|year=2008|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4097-7645-1}}</ref>
== Name == Ingle assumed his pseudonym during a touring trip to Ireland, when one member of the party gave his name as Sir Charles Ingle in a "spirit of waggery".<ref name="Chevalier242">{{cite book|title=Albert Chevalier, a Record by Himself|page=242|author=Albert Chevalier|year=2008|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4097-7645-1}}</ref> The name was then used on the prestigious guest list at their stop in Dublin and later that evening by composer Bond Andrews. Ingle later commented that Andrew's use of the name (and the fictitious "Lady Ingle") made the pseudonym pass ''bona fide'' to that evening's guests. He did, however, comment that the "haunting fear of untimely discovery made [him] vow never to pose as a knight again".<ref name="Chevalier243">{{cite book|title=Albert Chevalier, a Record by Himself|page=243|author=Albert Chevalier|year=2008|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4097-7645-1}}</ref>
== Career == Ingle composed music for many of his brother's comedic music hall songs,<ref name="Banham" /> including "Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road" (1891)<ref name="Bennett">{{cite book|title=Britpop and the English Music Tradition|page=104|author=Andy Bennett|author2=Jon Stratton|year=2010|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-0-7546-6805-3}}</ref> and "My Old Dutch" (1892).<ref name="FDHG" />
As well as managing and composing for his brother, Ingle performed alongside Albert. On 24 January 1876, Ingle portrayed Squire O'Grady in an adaptation of Samuel Lover's ''Handy Andy'', despite the fact that he "didn't know a line of the part".<ref name="Chevalier23">{{cite book|title=Albert Chevalier, a Record by Himself|page=23|author=Albert Chevalier|year=2008|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4097-7645-1}}</ref>
While managing Chevalier, Ingle was responsible for booking concert tours and would often book performances up to four months in advance. Chevalier would rarely play more than two shows in one town, but would tour for up to six months at a time. Chevalier began his first tour of the United States on 23 March 1896 at the Koster and Bails music hall in New York City, and continued touring the US for three years.<ref name="FDHG" />
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