Sir Charles Inigo Thomas GCB JP (21 November 1846 – 9 May 1929), known as Sir Inigo Thomas, was an English civil servant who spent his entire career in the Admiralty, serving as Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty from 1907–11.
[2][3] His elder brother Freeman Frederick Thomas, a noted cricketer, was the father of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy of India, and his younger brother was the composer Arthur Goring Thomas.
[1] Thomas entered the Admiralty in 1865, serving successively as private secretary to Rear-Admiral Arthur Hood, Second Sea Lord, and Rear-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, Fourth Sea Lord.
He became a principal clerk in 1885 and was put in charge of the branch that deals with the administration of Naval Law.
For his work during this period, in which "a number of important events" concerning the Navy occurred, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1900 Birthday Honours.