The Right Reverend Charles Inglis, third son of the Reverend Archibald Inglis, was born near Glen and Kilcarr, Ireland, in 1734. As a young man, Charles emigrated to America where he taught school for several years prior to 1759. He returned to England and studied for the Church of England priesthood, and was subsequently appointed a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts .

In 1759 Inglis returned to America as a missionary in Delaware, and in 1764 he was appointed assistant to the rector of Trinity Church, New York. He became rector of Trinity in 1777. At the end of the American Revolutionary War, in 1783, he moved with his family to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Four years later he was appointed Bishop of Nova Scotia, his see encompassing the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Bermuda, and Newfoundland. With the formation of the Diocese of Quebec in 1793, his see was restricted to the Maritime provinces. Bishop Charles Inglis died at Halifax on 24 February 1816.

The Right Reverend John Inglis, son of Charles Inglis and Margaret Crooke, was born at New York on 9 December 1777. In 1783 he emigrated with his family to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Educated in the church academy at Windsor, NS, he was ordained deacon in 1801. He was rector of St. Paul's Church, Halifax and also served as ecclesiastical commissary to his father prior to his death in 1816.

In 1825 John Inglis succeeded the Right Reverend Robert Stanser as Bishop of Nova Scotia. By virtue of his office, he became a member of the Executive Council of New Brunswick in 1826, but apparently he attended meetings on only a few occasions.

Inglis married Georgiana Cochran, eldest daughter of the Honourable Thomas Cochran, on 31 August 1802. They raised three sons and three daughters. John Inglis died on 27 October 1850, during a visit to London England. He is buried in St. Mary's churchyard, Battersea, London.

Source:
"John Inglis", Graves Papers, vol. 4, pt. 3, p. 140; Lee, G. Herbert, An Historical Sketch of the First Fifty Years of The Church of England in the Province of New Brunswick (1783-1833), 1880