Anthony Inglis

Anthony Inglis (1813 to 1884) was a Scottish journeyman blacksmith, engineer and shipbuilder who set up and managed the shipyard A. & J. Inglis at Pointhouse in Glasgow together with his younger brother John Inglis. According to Wikipedia he founded a business in 1837, working from premises in Anderston, to supply smithwork to shipbuilders. John, who had learned marine engineering, joined him in 1847, and together they founded A. & J. Inglis. The firm won its first major marine contract in 1850, supplying the machinery for the tug Clyde, and in 1855 it provided the machinery of the steamer Tasmanian, one of the largest and fastest vessels of its day. In 1862 the brothers added shipbuilding by acquiring the land at the confluence of the Kelvin and the Clyde where the Pointhouse yard had existed since 1845. After Anthony died in 1884 his son John Inglis took over the management of the firm.