INGLIS, ing'lz, Charles, American Angli can bishop: b. according to some authorities New York, according to others Ireland 1734; d. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1816. After teaching school for a few years near Lancaster, Pa., he was ordained in England. He was at first as to a missionary post at Dover, Del., and in 1765 became assistant minister at Trinity Church, New York. About 1770 he became one of the governors of King's College, now Columbia University.. A stout Loyalist, he re fused to omit from the service the prayer for the king and royal family, and upon the occupa tion of New York by Washington retired for a time to Long Island. In 1770 he received an honorary M.A. degree, and in 1778 that of doctor of divinity, both from Oxford Univer sity. In 1777 he was chosen to the rectorship of Trinity, and in 1783, at the evacuation of New York by the British, went to Halifax in the emigration of the United Empire Loyalists.
He was consecrated in 1787 bishop of Nova Scotia (with jurisdiction over the other North American protinces), and was the first colonial bishop of the Church of England. In 1809 he became a member of the Council of Nova Scotia. He published sermons and pamphlets. Consult Dix, M., (A History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York>
vols., New York 1898-1906) ; Eaton, A. W. H., (Bishop Charles Inglis and his Descendants'
Acadiensis, Vol. VIII, No. 3, p. 183, Saint ohn 1908) ; O'Callag.han, P.. B.,. ed., 'Docu mentary History of New York' (4 vols., Al bany 1850-51) ; Perry W. S.,