Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield


Rear Admiral Sir Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield, KBE was a Victorian Royal Navy officer and later secretary of Lloyds of London. He gave his name to the Inglefield clip, a device he patented in 1890 for quickly attaching signal flags.

Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield born onApril 1861 at Wavertree, near Liverpool, Lancashire, the youngest son of Edward Augustus Inglefield , Arctic explorer and Royal Navy admiral. He married Julia Katherine Margaret ne Wilson in 1887 in 1891 she submitted a petition for divorce although the 1911 census shows them as still married but living apart.

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