{{Short description|British Royal Navy admiral (1783–1848)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person |honorific_prefix = [[Rear admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] |name = Samuel Inglefield |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} |image= |caption= |birth_date = 1783 |death_date = 24 February {{death year and age|1848|1783}} |birth_place= |death_place=[[Bombay]]<ref name="gent">{{cite journal |title=Rear Admiral Inglefield |journal=The Gentleman's Magazine |date=June 1848 |volume=184 |page=661 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhQ2AQAAMAAJ&q=Samuel+Hood+Inglefield&pg=PA661 |publisher=F. Jefferies |language=en}}</ref> |nickname= |father = [[John Nicholson Inglefield]] |relatives = [[Edward Augustus Inglefield]] (son) |module = {{infobox military person |embed = yes |allegiance={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}}<br/>{{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}} |branch= {{navy|Kingdom of Great Britain}} |service_years = 1791–1848 |rank = [[Rear Admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] |unit= |commands=[[HMS Ganges (1821)|HMS ''Ganges'']]<br/>[[South East Coast of America Station|{{not a typo|Brazils}} and River Plate Station]]<br/>[[East Indies and China Station]] |battles= {{tree list}} * [[French Revolutionary Wars]] * [[Napoleonic Wars]] * [[Uruguayan Civil War]] * [[Battle of Vuelta de Obligado]] {{tree list/end}} |awards=Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] |relations= |other_work= }} }}
[[Rear Admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] '''Samuel Hood Inglefield''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (1783 – 24 February 1848) was a [[Royal Navy]] officer who went on to be [[East Indies and China Station|Commander in-Chief, East Indies and China Station]].
==Naval career== The son of [[John Nicholson Inglefield]], Inglefield joined the [[Royal Navy]] in 1791.<ref name=angel>[https://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/RNBIOG3.html Naval Officers 1849]</ref> He was promoted to post-captain in 1807<ref>[http://origin.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-5605012&CATLN=7&accessmethod=5 Item reference ADM 9/3/403] National Archives]</ref> and commanded [[French corvette Bacchante (1795)|HMS ''Bacchante'']] at [[Jamaica]] in 1807 and assisted in the capture of the Spanish privateer ''Amor de la Patria'',<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16104|date=29 December 1807|page=8}}</ref> and intercepted a [[Spain|Spanish]] armed vessel.<ref name=nelson>[http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0264 HMS Bacchante at Age of Nelson]</ref> The following year he captured the French brig ''Griffon''.<ref name=nelson/>
By 1827 Inglefield was commanding [[HMS Ganges (1821)|HMS ''Ganges'']].<ref>[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=626 Biography of John Alexander Duntze R.N.]</ref> Promoted to rear admiral in 1841,<ref name=angel/> he was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the [[South East Coast of America Station|Brazils and River Plate Station]]<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=182-buckle&cid=0#0 The Buckle Papers] National Archives</ref> at a time when [[Uruguayan Civil War]] was underway.<ref>[http://www.pdavis.nl/Uruguay.htm W.L. Clowes on the 1845 Anglo-French action in Uruguay]</ref> Inglefield took decisive action at this time to keep the [[Paraná River]] open so ensuring continuity of trade.<ref>[http://www.personanavalpress.co.uk/articles_barker2.htm#4 Pax Britannica: The Parana]</ref> He became [[East Indies and China Station|Commander in-Chief, East Indies and China Station]] in 1846<ref name=loney>[http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowCommanders.php William Loney RN]</ref> and died of apparent [[heat stroke]] while still serving in that role in 1848.<ref name="gent"/><ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14395?docPos=2 Edward Augustus Inglefield at ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'']</ref>
He lived at [[Orpington]] in [[Kent]].<ref>[http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Maps/ORP/02.htm Orpington Tithe award schedule – signed 30 June 1843] Kent Archaeology</ref>
==Family== In 1816 he married Priscilla Margaret Otway.<ref name=angel/> He was father to [[Edward Augustus Inglefield]], an admiral, inventor and Arctic explorer.<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14395 Edward Augustus Inglefield at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref>
==See also== * {{cite wikisource |first=William Richard |last=O'Byrne |chapter=Inglefield, Samuel Hood |title=A Naval Biographical Dictionary |year=1849 |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]]}}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before = [[John Purvis (Royal Navy officer)|John Purvis]]}} {{s-ttl|title = [[South East Coast of America Station|Commander-in-Chief, South East Coast of America Station]]|years = 1844–1846}} {{s-aft|after = [[Thomas Herbert (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Thomas Herbert]]}} |- {{s-bef|before = [[Thomas John Cochrane|Sir Thomas Cochrane]]}} {{s-ttl|title = [[East Indies and China Station|Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station]]|years = 1846–1848}} {{s-aft|after = [[Francis Augustus Collier|Sir Francis Collier]]}} {{s-end}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Inglefield, Samuel}} [[Category:1783 births]] [[Category:1848 deaths]] [[Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath]] [[Category:Inglefield family|Samuel]] [[Category:Royal Navy rear admirals]] [[Category:Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars]]