Following the retreat from Lucknow, Mrs. Inglis and her three children returned to England on board SS Ava; the ship set out from Calcutta for Suez on 10 February 1858, but ran aground off Pigeon Island, about 12 miles from Trincomalee, Ceylon on 16 February [REF].
Inglis was educated at Rugby School before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1876 [REF].