Inglis, Charles

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INGLIS, CHARLES

Anglican bishop; b. Glencolumbkille, Donegal, Ireland, 1734; d. Nova Scotia, Canada, Feb. 24, 1816. After being educated in Ireland, he came to the U.S. in 1757 to teach at a church school in Lancaster, Pa. The following year he went to London, where he was ordained and assigned to a missionary post at Dover, Del. In 1765 Inglis became assistant rector at Trinity Church in New York City. During the Revolutionary War, his church was burned and his congregation scattered after he refused to omit the prayer for the king from his services. He left for Nova Scotia with other Loyalists, and in 1787 he was consecrated as the first Anglican bishop in Canada. With his see at Halifax, Nova Scotia, his diocese comprised all eastern Canada and the island of Bermuda. As bishop, he founded (1789) King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, one of the first English colleges in Canada.

Bibliography: j. c. h. mockridge, Bishops of the Church of England in Canada and Newfoundland (Toronto 1896). o. w. rowley, Anglican Episcopate of Canada and Newfoundland (Milwaukee 1928).

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