Harry Charles Ingle
Mayor of Oxford 1943/4
Harry Charles Ingle (1870–1949) was born in Summertown, the son of Charles Ingle (born in Whittlesea, Cambridge in c.1841) and his wife Rosa (born in Oxford in c.1846).
The 1871 census shows Harry as an 11-month-old baby living with his parents at Gothic Cottage, Summertown. His father Charles (30) is described as a National Schoolmaster, and his mother Rosa (24) as an Infant School Mistress. The family had a live-in servant girl aged 13.
By the time of the 1881 census the family were living at the school house in Church Street (now Rogers Street) and Harry had four younger siblings: Winifred (8), Frances (6), Leonard (2), and Dorothy (1). His parents both continued to teach, and presumably the 16-year-old servant looked after the children.
Harry was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys, and then won a place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He entered the banking profession, and moved around the country. The 1891 census shows him as a 20-year-old bank clerk lodging at 49 Waylen Street, Reading; ten years later in 1901 census he was lodging at 6 St John’s Terrace, Newport, Isle of Wight.
In about 1905 Ingle married Mildred Emily (born in Elmstead, Essex in c.1881). They had no children. The 1911 census shows the couple living at 97 Ware Road, Hertford with one servant, and Ingle (40) is still described as a bank clerk.
Ingle ended up as the manager of the Westminster Bank at Wokingham.
It had always been Ingle’s ambition to come back to Oxford in retirement, and this he did in the early 1930s. In 1934 he was elected on to the city council serving Summertown ward, and remained a councillor until his death. He served as Chairman of the Baths Committee, and represented the City of Oxford on the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Joint Vagrancy Committee and the Town Planning Joint Advisory Committee. He was a governor of his old school (the City of Oxford High School for Boys) and of Southfield School and the Schools of Technology, Art & Commerce. He was sidesman at St Michael & All Angels Church in Summertown, and President of the Summertown Football Club. He was also a member of the Oxford Preservation Trust.
In 1843 Ingle was elected Mayor of Oxford for 1943/4, and in 1847 he was made an Alderman.
Ingle died at his home at 27 Capel Place, Summertown, on Saturday 22 October 1949.
See also:
- Oxford Times, 28 October 1949, p. 10g (obituary)
- 1871 Census: Oxford (Summertown), 1436/12
- 1881 Census: Oxford (St Giles), 1499/24