Thomas Stewart Inglis [also known as Major T. Stewart Inglis] was born in St. Pancras, Middlesex [now London], England on 6 March 1872. By 1891 he was working as an architect and living in Hampstead, London. By 1911 he had moved to Streatham, Surrey [now London]. After serving as a major in the Army during World War One, he returned to his architectural practice in Streatham. He also became a hotel proprietor and ran Ye Old Felbridge Hotel, a hotel in Felbridge, Surrey, which he had designed and built, and later the Roebuck Hotel at Wych Cross, Forest Row, Sussex, which he was responsible for refurbishing.
He was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA) and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1925. An inn sign designed by Inglis for 'The Spread Eagle' in Thame is illustrated in the November 1947 issue of ‘Art and Industry’ (p.169)
His address was given as 9, Oakdale Road, Coventry Park, Streatham, London in 1914; and 15, Copley Park, Streatham, Surrey in 1923. He later lived at both Ye Old Felbridge Hotel and the Roebuck Hotel. He died at Ely Hospital, near Cardiff, Wales on 27 July 1953.
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001