SIR

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• EDWARD

EDWARD

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• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

AUGUSTUS

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• SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (182o—1894)

INGLEFIELD (182o—1894)  , British admiral and explorer, was born at Cheltenham, on the 27th of March 1820, and educated at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth . His father was Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood Inglefield (1783—1848), and his grandfather Captain John Nicholson Inglefield (1748—1828), who served with Lord Hood against the French . The boy went to sea when fourteen, took part in the naval operations on the Syrian Coast in 1840, and in 1845 was promoted to the rank of commander for gallant conduct at Obligado . In 1852 he commanded Lady Franklin's yacht " Isabel " on her cruise to Smith Sound, and his narrative of the expedition was published under the title of A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin (1853) . He received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society on his return.and was given command of the " Phoenix," in which he made three trips to the Arctic, bringing home part of the Belcher Arctic expedition in 1854 . In that year he was again sent out on the last attempt made by the Admiralty to find Sir John Franklin . In the Crimean War Captain Inglefield took part in the siege of Sevastopol . He was knighted in 1877, and nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath ten years later . He was promoted admiral in 1879 . Besides being an excellent marine artist, he was the inventor of the hydraulic steering gear and the Inglefield anchor . He died on the 5th of September 1894 . His son, Captain Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield (b .

1861), became secretary of Lloyds in 1906 . Sir Edward Inglefield's

brother, Rear-Admiral V . O . Inglefield, was the father of Rear-Admiral Frederick Samuel Inglefield (b . 18J4), director of naval intelligence in 1902-1904, and of two other sons distinguished as soldiers . INGLE-NOOK (from Lat. igniculns, dim. of ignis, fire), a corner or seat by the fireside, within the chimney-breast . The open Tudor or Jacobean fire-place was often wide enough to admit of a wooden settle being placed at each end of the embrasure of which it occupied the centre, and yet far enough away not to be inconveniently hot . This was one of the means by which the builder sought to avoid the draughts which must have been extremely frequent in old houses . English literature is full of references, appreciatory or regretful, to the cosy ingle-nook that was killed by the adoption of small grates . Modern English and American architects are, however, fond of devising them in houses designed on ancient models, and owners of old buildings frequently remove the modern grates and restore the original arrangement .