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Not who you're looking for? Others named Charles Inglis: Irish clergyman (1734–1816); Bishop of Nova Scotia · Royal Navy admiral; (1731-1791) · Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napol
Sir Charles Edward Inglis, (; 31 July 1875 – 19 April 1952) was a British civil engineer. The son of a medical doctor, he was educated at Cheltenham College and won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he would later forge a career as an academic. Inglis spent a two-year period with the engineering firm run by John Wolfe-Barry before he returned to King's College as a lecturer. Working with Professors James Alfred Ewing and Bertram Hopkinson, he made several important studies into the effects of vibration on structures and defects on the strength of plate steel.
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