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MODERN

ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY.

MODERN
ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY

CONTAINING

MANY THOUSAND CONCISE MEMOIRS
OF PERSONS WHO HAVE DIED
SINCE THE YEAR 1850,

WITH

AN INDEX OF THE MOST INTERESTING MATTER.

BY

FREDERIC BOASE.

FACTA NON VERBA.

VOLUME II.
I-Q.

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1897.

MODERN

ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY.

VOLUME II.

I I’ANSON.

I’ANSON, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward I’Anson 1775–1853,
surveyor and architect). _b._ St. Laurence, Pountney hill,
London 25 July 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’; exhibited 18
designs at R.A. 1830–80; architect in city of London 1837 to
death; surveyor for St. Bartholomew’s hospital 18 Dec. 1871;
designed British and Foreign Bible Society’s buildings, Queen
Victoria st. 1866, Merchant Taylors’ school at the Charterhouse
opened 1875, and greater part of the fine buildings in the City
built exclusively for offices; restored Dutch church in Austin
Friars and that of St. Mary, Abchurch; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, pres.
1886 to death, wrote many papers for its Transactions; author
of Detached essays and illustrations, Architectural Publication
soc. 1853. _d._ 28 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London
30 Jany. 1888. _bur._ at Headley in Hampshire. _Builder,
xxix_ 189, 1006 (1871), _portrait_.

I’ANSON, WILLIAM, _b._ Middleham, Yorkshire 1810; horse trainer;
trainer to A. Johnstone at Malton 1849; trained Blink Bonny
winner of the Derby 1857, Caller Ou winner of the St. Leger 1861
and Blair Athol winner of the Derby and St. Leger 1864; had a
yearly sale of horses on Friday after the St. Leger; owner of
numerous race horses; golf player; captain of Malton curling
club; his Blink Bonny stud farm was very well known. _d._
Hungerford house, Norton, Malton 10 Jany. 1881. _Illust. sp. and
dram. news, xiv 453, 466 (1881), portrait; Bell’s Life in London
15 Jany. 1881 pp. 6, 7._

IBBETSON, LEVETT LANDEN BOSCAWEN. Captain; gave his valuable
collections of fossils and cretaceous mollusca to Museum
of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1853–61; F.G.S.;
F.R.S. 6 June 1850; knight of the orders of the Red Eagle and
Hohenzollern of Prussia; resided at Biebrich for several years;
author of Notes on the geology and chemical composition of the
various strata in the Isle of Wight 1849. _d._ Biebrich, Prussia
8 Sep. 1869. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxvi p. xli
(1870)._

IBBOTSON, HENRY, _b._ about 1816; schoolmaster at Mowthorpe near
Castle Howard, at Dunnington and at Grimthorpe near Whitwell
all in Yorkshire; distributed sets of the rarer plants of the
northern counties; contributed to Baines’s Flora of Yorkshire
1840 and to Baker’s North Yorkshire 1863; author of A catalogue
of the Phœnogamous plants of Great Britain 1848; The ferns of
York 1884. _d._ in great poverty at York 12 Feb. 1886.

IBRAHIM, MIRZA MUHAMMAD. _b._ Persia; a great English scholar;
assistant professor in the Oriental department at Haileybury
college near Amwell, Herts., professor of Arabic and Persian
there 1829–44; retired on a pension from H.E.I. Co.; translated
Isaiah into Persian, London 1834 but the title page is in
Arabic; wrote A grammar of the Persian language, London 1841,
and other books published in Leipzig; tutor to the heir of the
Shah of Persia. _d._ Teheran, Persia, July 1857.

ICELY, THOMAS. _b._ Plymouth, Nov. 1797; went to New South Wales
1819; a merchant and shipper Sydney; member of legislative
council 1842–56; a member of the upper house 1864 to death. _d._
Elizabeth farm, Paramatta 13 Feb. 1874. _Heaton’s Australian
Dict. of dates (1879) 99._

IDDESLEIGH, SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE, 1 Earl of (eld. son
of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1850). _b._ 23 Portland place,
London 27 Oct. 1818; ed. at Eton 1831–6 and at Balliol coll.
Ox., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 19 Nov.
1847; legal sec. to board of trade 1847; sec. to comrs. of Great
exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet
17 Nov. 1851; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, G.C.B. 20 April 1880; M.P.
Dudley 1855–7, M.P. Stamford 1858–66, M.P. North Devon 1866–85;
president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867; P.C. 6
July 1866; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868;
governor of Hudson Bay co. 5 Jany. 1869; chancellor of the
exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880; elected lord rector
of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884; cr. earl
of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co.
Devon 3 July 1885; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to
6 Feb. 1886; author of A short review of the history of the
navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849; A statement connected with
the elections of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford
1847, 1852 and 1853; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862;
reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch. Roxburgh Club 1887. _d._ in
Lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887.
_Lang’s Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. Northcote, new ed.
(1891), 2 portraits_; _D. Anderson’s Scenes in the house of
commons (1884) 24–28_; _C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, i 98
(1882), portrait_; _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 19, 21–3,
portrait_.

NOTE.--He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel _The Three Clerks_ under the name of Sir Warwick West End.

IDDISON, ROGER. _b._ Bedale, Yorkshire 15 Sep. 1834; a butcher;
kept a shop for sale of cricket articles at Manchester 1864; one
of the first team of English cricketers who played 15 matches in
Australia 1 Jany. to 22 March 1862; played his first match at
Lords 9–11 June 1862; played in 27 first-rate matches and made
1059 runs 1867; founded with George Freeman the United North
of England Eleven 1869; professional at Harrow school 1871–2;
joint sec. with C. D. Barstow of Yorkshire United Eleven 1874;
a first-rate batsman, a good fieldsman at point and a good
lob-bowler; a commission agent at York 1870 to death. _d._ 20
Blake st. York 19 March 1890. _Illust. sporting news, iii 441
(1864), portrait._

IDLE, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Kent 1799 or 1800; lived in France some
years, then in Argyleshire; joint editor with J. H. Walsh of
The Field 1858–9; contributed to the Review and Land and Water;
a salmon fisher; a whist player and member of Graham’s and the
Portland clubs; a member of the Reform where he was one of the
best ecarté players 1856 to death; edited The rural almanack
1855; author of Hints on shooting and fishing 1855, 2 ed. 1865.
_d._ 11 Norris st. Haymarket, London 28 May 1871. _Westminster
papers July 1871 p. 44_; _Field 3 June 1871 p. 447_.

IGGULDEN, JOHN. _b._ Deal 1 June 1777; notary and proctor
Doctors’ commons, London; one of the 3 deputy registrars of
prerogative court of Canterbury, Doctors’ commons 1829 to death.
_d._ 8 Russell sq. London 18 Nov. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

IKIN, JOHN ARTHUR. _b._ 1810; solicitor at Leeds 1832 to death;
town clerk of Leeds 19 July 1843 to death. _d._ Scarcroft grange
near Leeds 4 Sep. 1860. _Leeds Intelligencer 8 Sep. 1860 p. 5._

ILBERY, JOSIAH JAMES. _b._ London 16 Sep. 1769; superintendent
Liverpool and Manchester railway 1826, superannuated in 1855
when 86 years old being one of the oldest and most indefatigable
railway officers in the world. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man 11
April 1869 when almost a centenarian. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i
485–6 (1869)._

ILCHESTER, HENRY STEPHEN FOX STRANGWAYS, 3 Earl of (only son
of 2 Earl of Ilchester 1747–1802). _b._ 21 Feb. 1787; styled
lord Stavordale 1787–1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., D.C.L. 1814;
succeeded his father 5 Sep. 1802; capt. Dorsetshire regt. of
yeomanry 15 April 1808, lieut.-col. commandant 12 Feb. 1846;
lord lieut. of Somerset 19 April 1837 to May 1839; capt. of the
yeomen of the guard 12 July 1837 to 5 July 1841; P.C. 12 July
1837. _d._ Melbury house near Dorchester 3 Jany. 1858.

ILCHESTER, WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER FOX STRANGWAYS, 4 Earl of (half
brother of the preceding). _b._ 7 May 1795; styled hon. William
Fox-Strangways 1795–1858; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A.
1820; attaché at St. Petersburg 1816, at Constantinople 1820, at
Naples 1822 and at the Hague 1824; sec. of legation at Florence
1825, at Naples 1828, at Turin 1832 and at Vienna 1832; under
sec. of state for foreign affairs 1835–40; envoy extraord. and
minister plenipo. at Frankfort 17 March 1840 to Jany. 1849;
succeeded as 3 earl 3 Jany. 1858; F.R.S. 8 March 1821. _d._
Melbury house near Dorchester 10 Jany. 1865.

ILES, VEN. JOHN HODGSON (eld. son of John Iles of Healing,
Lincolnshire). _b._ 22 Sep. 1828; ed. at Rugby and Lincoln coll.
Oxf., fellow 1855–61; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; assist. master
Bromsgrove gr. sch. 1852–7; R. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton
1860–76; V. of Barton-under-Needwood 1876–80; V. of Ch. Ch.
Lichfield 1880–3; preb. of Lichfield 1870–7; archdeacon of
Stafford 1876 to death; canon of Lichfield 1877 to death. _d._
13 Nov. 1888. _bur._ Lichfield 17 Nov.

ILIFF, REV. FREDERICK (younger son of Wm. Tiffin Iliff
1772–1830). _b._ Nottingham 12 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ
hospital; entered Trin. coll. Cam. as a sizar 6 Jany. 1819,
scholar 19 April 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1838; head
master of royal institution school, Liverpool; master of Grange
sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–62; P.C. of Gateworth near Selby
1862, resigned 1868; edited the Biblia ecclesiæ polyglotta: the
proper lessons for Sundays in Hebrew etc. 1843; author of Week
days prayers for the use of boarding schools 1855; A plea for a
revisal of the Bible translation of 1611. Sunderland 1856; The
Old is better: materials for new forms of Common Prayer from
parts of the Prayer book not used in Sunday services 1872. _d._
Sunderland 9 March 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 350 (1869)._

ILIFF, REV. GEORGE (2 son of the preceding). Ordained deacon
1855, priest 1857; second master at Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth
1856–61; head master of Hall school, Sunderland (opened by him)
July 1861 to death; author of Chronology in verse without
numbers 1855, anon.; An English education, what it means and
how it may be carried out 1858, 3 ed. 1861. _d._ 15 Murton st.
Sunderland 6 Sep. 1878.

ILLIDGE, THOMAS HENRY. _b._ Birmingham 26 Sep. 1799; ed. at
Manchester; painted portraits of many celebrities of Lancashire;
exhibited at Liverpool academy from 1827; portrait painter in
London 1842 to death; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I.
and 13 at Suffolk st. 1826–51. _d._ of fever at 33 Bruton st.
Berkeley sq. London 13 May 1851.

ILSLEY, REV. JOSEPH MARY. _b._ Maple Durham, Oxfordshire 20 Dec.
1805; ed. at English coll. Lisbon, professor there, president
1854–63; D.D. by papal decree 20 June 1854; missioner at
Scorton, Lancs. 1863 to death; received order of the Immaculada
Conceicao; wrote ten sermons in The Catholic Pulpit vols.
i–ii 1839–40. _d._ Scorton 31 Aug. 1868. _Gillow’s English
Catholics_, _iii_ 530–2 (1887).

IMAGE, REV. THOMAS (son of rev. John Image, V. of Peterborough,
_d._ 1786). _b._ 1772; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1798; R. of Whepstead, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1798 to death;
R. of Stanningfield, Suffolk 20 March 1809 to death; formed
from counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk, nearly the
finest collection of fossils in England, which he sold to Univ.
of Cambridge for Woodwardian museum 1856; F.G.S. 1840. _d._
Whepstead rectory 8 March 1856. _G.M. xlv_ 386, 534, 554 (1856).

IMHOFF, SIR CHARLES (son of baron Charles Von Imhoff a German).
_b._ England 1766; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. 1785–6; commanded
a company in one of regiments of Prince of Waldeck 1787–93;
served in Berkshire militia 1793–8; captain 1 light dragoons
1799; major 4 foot 1801, lieut. col. 5 Feb. 1802; lieut. col. 4
garrison battalion 17 Sep. 1807 to June 1812; inspecting field
officer of Guernsey militia 1812; general 9 Nov. 1846. _d._
Daylesford house, Chipping Norton, Worcs. 14 Feb. 1853. _G.M.
xxxix_ 543–4 (1853), _xl_ 390.

NOTE.--From 18 May 1807 the date of his obtaining a royal licence to accept insignia of grand commander of St. Joachim, he enjoyed the titular distinction of a knight, in this country, the regulation to contrary with respect to foreign orders of knighthood not being issued until the year 1813. His mother _m._ (2) Warren Hastings and _d._ 29 March 1837 aged 90. On his death the mansion and estate of Daylesford, the ultimate aim and object of Warren Hastings’ ambition, were sold 30 July 1853 to George Grisewood of the Stock Exchange for £30,250.

IMLACH, JAMES. _b._ Banff, Scotland 8 May 1789; bookseller,
Banff; collected materials for sir Walter Scott for a life of
Macpherson the freebooter, a work never published; author of
History of Banff and account of its inhabitants. Banff 1868.
_d._ Castle Panton, Banff 13 July 1880. _Banffshire Journal 20
July 1880 p._ 5.

IMPEY, JOHN (2 son of sir Elijah Impey 1732–1809, chief justice
of Bengal). _b._ 1772; midshipman R.N. 28 April 1785; captain 22
Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on half pay 4 July 1855.
_d._ Coly villa, Colyford 2 Aug. 1858.

IMRAY, JAMES FREDERICK. _b._ 1829 or 1830; F.R.G.S.; F.S.A.;
author of Pilotage rates of the ports of the United Kingdom
1858; Baltic pilot 1870; The Bay of Bengal pilot 1879; he also
published for the admiralty, Sailing directions for the ports in
the bay of Bengal 1866, and other books of Sailing Directions
for various places 1866–76; with W. Rosser The lights and tides
of the world 1869. _d._ St. Catharine’s, Beckenham, Kent 8 Oct.
1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 12 Oct.

IMRAY, JOHN. _b._ in north of Scotland 11 Jany. 1811; L.R.C.S.
Edin. 1831; M.D. Heidelberg 1842; practised at Roseau, Dominica,
West Indies from 1832 to death; introduced the cultivation of
limes and of Liberian coffee; member of executive council;
chairman of board of health; a founder of the Roseau infirmary;
author of Memoir on yaws in Gavin Milroy’s Report on leprosy and
yaws in the West Indies 1873; wrote papers on The yellow fever,
in Edin. Med. Journ. 1838–48; contributed to the Gardener’s
Chronicle, the Technologist, the Journal of applied sciences
and Nature. _d._ Dominica 22 Aug. 1880. _Medical Times, ii_ 417
(1880).

IMRAY, KEITH. M.D., F.R.S.; author of A popular cyclopedia of
modern domestic medicine 1842. _d._ Stonehaven 27 Aug. 1855.

IMRIE, GEORGE (son of George Imrie of Perth). _b._ Scotland
2 July 1829; ed. at Christ hospital; clerk to Thomas Jones,
solicitor, city of London 1844; kept the accounts of the parish
of St. Stephen, Coleman st. 1847–64; assist. sec. Licensed
victuallers’ asylum, Old Kent road, London 1854, sec. 1864 to
death, presented with a purse of 100 guineas 1864, presented
with a silver cup and 250 sovereigns 1867. _d._ The Asylum,
London 6 Sep. 1872. _Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack_ (1868)
113–5, _portrait_, (1873) 156–7; _Illust. Sporting News_, _vi_
145 (1867), _portrait_.

INCE, HENRY BRET (eld. son of Edward Bret Ince, publisher of
the Law Journal, who _d._ 1882). _b._ London 1830; in business
connected with shipping; a leader writer on the Daily News;
barrister I.T. 1 Nov. 1852; admitted ad eundem at L.I. 7 Nov.
1859, bencher 4 Nov. 1878; reported for The Jurist in court of
V. C. Wood; Q.C. 28 June 1875; M.P. for Hastings 1883 to 1885,
for East division of Islington 1885 to 1886, contested the seat
1886; author of A systematic treatment of the Trustee act and
the Extension act of 1852, 1858, 2 ed. 1858. _d._ suddenly at 20
Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 7 May 1889.

INCE, JOSEPH MURRAY. _b._ Presteign, Radnorshire 1806; pupil of
David Cox 1823–6; came to London 1826; exhibited 16 pictures at
R.A., 23 at B.I. and 137 at Suffolk st. 1826–58; a good painter
of landscape in water-colours; painted at Presteign about 1835
to death; published Views illustrating the county of Radnor,
Seven lithographic plates 1832. _d._ 24 Sep. 1859. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemetery, _monu._ erected to his memory at Presteign.

INCE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794; connected with Godfrey & Cook,
pharmaceutical chemists, Southampton st. Covent Garden, London
from an early age to his death; a founder of the Pharmaceutical
society of Great Britain 20 March 1841, V.P. 1849–50 and
president 1850–1. _d._ Kensington 26 March 1853. _J. Bell and T.
Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 228.

INCHBOLD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Thomas Inchbold, proprietor and
editor of the Leeds Intelligencer). _b._ Leeds 29 April 1830;
studied under Louis Haghe; a student at the R.A. 1847; exhibited
27 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1849–79;
his pictures The Moorland 1855 and The White Doe of Rylstone
were much praised by Ruskin; made a sketching tour in Algeria;
many of his pictures were exhibited by Leeds Philosophical soc.
1887; author of Annus Amoris. Sonnets 1876. _d._ at his sister’s
residence, Headingley near Leeds 23 Jany. 1888. _bur._ Adel ch.
yard 25 Jany. Swinburne wrote a memorial funereal ode for him.
_Athenæum, i_ 123, 154, 188 (1888).

INCHIQUIN, SIR LUCIUS O’BRIEN, 13 Baron. _b._ Dromoland, county
Clare 5 Dec. 1800; M.P. for co. Clare 1826–30 and 1847–52;
succeeded his father as 5 baronet 13 March 1837; lord lieut. of
Clare, May 1843 to death; succeeded James O’Brien 3rd marquis
of Thomond and 12 baron Inchiquin, as 13 baron 3 July 1855, his
right to the barony was confirmed by House of Lords 11 April
1862; a representative peer for Ireland 20 Oct. 1863 to death;
author of Ireland: the late famine and the poor laws 1848. _d._
Dromoland 22 March 1872.

INCLEDON, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Incledon, vocalist
1763–1826). _b._ 1791; had a pure tenor voice; appeared at Drury
Lane as Meadows in Love in a Village 3 Oct. 1829; an English
teacher at Vienna many years. _d._ Bad Tuffé department of
Sarthe, France 1865.

INGALL, WILLIAM LENOX. _b._ 2 June 1822; ensign 62 foot 27 Dec.
1842, lieut. col. 25 Oct. 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Sutlej
campaign 1845–6 and in Crimean war 1854–5; brigadier general
Bengal, April to Oct. 1869 and April 1870 to Jany. 1874; L.G.
1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general
1 July 1881; col. Royal Sussex regiment 14 Sep. 1885 to death;
C.B. 22 Jany. 1857. _d._ Queen’s park, Chester 11 Jany. 1888.

INGALTON, WILLIAM (son of a shoemaker at Worplesdon, Surrey).
_b._ Worplesdon 1794; lived at Eton long time, where he painted
domestic and rustic scenes; published lithographed views of Eton
1821; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk
st. 1816–26; an architect and builder at Windsor from 1824. _d._
Clewer, Windsor 1866.

INGHAM, CHARLES CROMWELL. _b._ Dublin 1796; pupil of Wm. Cumming
1810–14; a portrait painter in New York 1816 to death; noted
for his portraits of women and children; a founder of National
Academy of Design, V.P. 1845–50 and an originator of the Sketch
club, New York; his works include The laughing girl and The
White plume. _d._ New York city 10 Dec. 1863. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_ 348 (1887).

INGHAM, JAMES PENROSE (elder son of the succeeding). _b._ 1839;
ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A, 1861; rowed in the
Cambridge boat against London and Oxford at Henley 1859; sculled
with David Ingles in the University pairs 1859 and with Robert
U. P. Fitzgerald 1860; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised
as a special pleader; went South Eastern circuit. _d._ 40
Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 28 Nov. 1879.

INGHAM, SIR JAMES TAYLOR (younger son of Joshua Ingham of Blake
hall, West Riding of Yorkshire). _b._ 17 Jany. 1805; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 15 June
1832; magistrate Thames police court March 1849, transferred
to Hammersmith and Wandsworth 1856; chief magistrate at Bow
st. July 1876 to death; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876;
adjudicated upon many important extradition cases. _d._ 40
Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 5 March 1890. _Vanity Fair 20
Feb. 1886_, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiii_ 341 (1881) _portrait_.

INGHAM, ROBERT (son of Wm. Ingham of Newcastle on Tyne). _b._
1793; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1816–26; B.A.
1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820, barrister I.T.
1825, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1862, treasurer 1863; Q.C.
July 1851; M.P. for South Shields 1832–41 and 1852–68; recorder
of Berwick on Tweed June 1832, resigned Nov. 1870; attorney
general of county palatine of Durham 1846–61. _d._ Weston, South
Shields 21 Oct. 1875.

INGILBY, REV. SIR HENRY JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of rev. Henry
Ingilby of Ripley, Yorkshire 1761–1833). _b._ 28 Jany. 1790;
ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar to 1816; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816;
created baronet 26 July 1866. _d._ Ripley castle, Yorkshire 5
July 1870.

INGILBY, SIR WILLIAM AMCOTTS-, 2 Baronet. _b._ Yorkshire, June
1783; succeeded his maternal grandfather as 2 baronet 26 Sep.
1807, his father as 2 baronet 8 May 1815; assumed name of
Amcotts before that of Ingilby 1812; M.P. for Lincolnshire 6
Dec. 1823 to 3 Dec. 1832, for North Lincolnshire 24 Dec. 1832 to
29 Dec. 1834. _d._ 23 Abingdon st. Westminster 14 May 1854.

INGILBY, SIR WILLIAM BATES (brother of rev. sir H. J. Ingilby
1790–1870). _b._ North Deighton, Yorkshire 30 April 1791; ed. at
Houghton le Spring, Marlow and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 April
1809, col. 6 Nov. 1854 to 22 June 1860, colonel commandment 24
Aug. 1866 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 13 March 1867.
_d._ 9 Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 6 Aug. 1879.

INGLEBY, CLEMENT MANSFIELD (only son of Clement Ingleby of
Birmingham, solicitor, _d._ 1859). _b._ Edgbaston 29 Oct.
1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, LL.D.
1859; solicitor at Birmingham 1849–59; professor of logic at
Birmingham and Midland institute 1858; foreign sec. and V.P.
of R. Soc. of literature; an original trustee of Shakespeare’s
birthplace 1861; V.P. New Shakespeare soc.; author of Outlines
of theoretical logic 1856; The Shakespeare fabrications 1859;
An introduction to metaphysics 1869; The Still lion 1874,
republished as Shakespeare hermeneutics 1875; Shakespeare’s
Centurie of prayse 1874, three editions. _d._ Valentines,
Ilford, Essex 26 Sep. 1886. _Edgbastonia_, _iii_ 65–7 (1883),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 283–8 (1880).

INGLEDEW, HENRY. _b._ 1786; solicitor at Newcastle 1817 to
death; registrar of Gateshead county court; alderman of
Newcastle to death, sheriff 1852–3, mayor 1860. _d._ Lovaine
place, Newcastle 24 May 1882.

INGLIS, ANDREW. _b._ 1838; M.D. Edin. 1859; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1863;
professor of midwifery in Univ. of Aberdeen 1869 to death;
author of papers in Edin. Medical Journal 1864–71, and of
Case of deformity of the pelvis in which cæsarean section was
performed. Edin. 1871. _d._ 1 East Craibstone st. Aberdeen 13
March 1875 aged 37.

INGLIS, REV. DAVID. _b._ Greenlaw, Berwickshire 8 June 1825;
ed. at Edin. univ. 1841–5; went to U.S. of America 1846;
presbyterian minister at Washington Heights, New York, at
Bedford, N.Y., at Montreal and at Hamilton; professor of
systematic theology, Knox coll. Toronto 1871–2; minister Dutch
reformed ch. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1872; LL.D. of Olivet 1872; D.D.
of Rutgers 1874; author of Systematic theology in its relation
to modern thought 1876. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 15 Dec. 1887.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 349 (1887).

INGLIS, JAMES. _b._ Glasgow, Sep. 1813; ed. at gr. school
Musselburgh and univ. of Edin.; apprenticed to sir George
Ballingall, Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; M.D. Edin. 1834;
practised at Castle Douglas 1835–37, then at Ripon and finally
at Halifax; physician to Ripon public dispensary; curator
of geology to Halifax Lit. and Philos. soc.; author of Hope
Prize essay on Iodine and bromine 1835; Treatise on English
bronchocele with remarks on the use of iodine and its compounds
1838, and of contributions to medical periodicals. _d._ Green
Royde near Halifax 9 March 1851.

INGLIS, JAMES GORDON. _b._ 1816; M.D. Glasgow 1836; L.R.C.S.
Edin. 1838; assistant surgeon in army 29 March 1839, surgeon
1852; surgeon general 7 Jany. 1875 to 19 July 1876 when placed
on h.p.; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9, Persian campaign
1856–7 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; medical superintendent of
Meerut division 1873–6; C.B. 1859. _d._ Floriana, Jersey 6 Sep.
1879.

INGLIS, JOHN, Lord Glencorse (youngest son of rev. John Inglis,
minister of Old Greyfriars’ ch. Edinburgh). _b._ Edin. 21 Aug.
1810; ed. at high sch. Edin., univ. of Glasgow and Ball. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837, D.C.L. 1859; LL.D. Aberdeen 1857,
LL.D. Edin. 1858; called to bar in Scotland 1838; solicitor
general for Scotland 28 Feb. to May 1852, lord advocate 19 May
to Dec. 1852 and Feb. to June 1858; dean of faculty of advocates
Nov. 1852; defended Madeline Smith, June–July 1857; lord rector
of univ. of Aberdeen 1857; M.P. Stamford 3 March to 10 July
1858; H.M. advocate for Scotland 1 March 1858; lord justice
clerk in Scotland and president of 2 division of court of
session with title of Lord Glencorse 10 July 1858 to Feb. 1867;
P.C. 2 Feb. 1859; lord justice general and president of court of
session in Scotland 25 Feb. 1867 to death; nominated chancellor
of univ. of Edin. 30 Oct. 1868, installed 21 April 1869; author
of The historical study of law. An address. Edin. 1863. _d._
Loganbank, Midlothian 20 Aug. 1891. _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_
(1884) 3–4; _Juridical Review_, _i_ (1889) _portrait_; _I.L.N.
29 Aug. 1891 pp._ 270, 271, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He brought in a “Bill to make provision for the better government and discipline of the Universities of Scotland” 22 April 1858 which became law 2 Aug. 1858, he was chairman of the executive commission to carry out views of the act from 27 Aug. 1858 to 20 Dec. 1862 and presided at all the 126 meetings. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edin. ii_ 91–102, 236 (1884).

INGLIS, SIR JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT (son of right rev. John Inglis,
bishop of Nova Scotia, _d._ 27 Oct. 1850 aged 72). _b._ Nova
Scotia 15 Nov. 1814; ensign 32 foot 2 Aug. 1833, lieut. col. 20
Feb. 1855 to 26 Nov. 1857, col. 5 May 1860 to death; M.G. 26
Nov. 1857; served in Canadian rebellion of 1837, in the Punjab
campaign 1848–9 including siege of Moultan when he succeeded
to command of right column of attack, in action of Soorjkomd,
at capture of Cheniote and in battle of Goojerat; K.C.B. 21
Jany. 1858 for his enduring fortitude and persevering gallantry
in defence of residency of Lucknow for 87 days against an
overwhelming force of the enemy; commander of forces in Corfu,
Jany. 1862. (_m._ 19 July 1851 Julia Selina 4 dau. of Frederic
Thesiger 1 baron Chelmsford, she was _b._ 19 April 1833 and was
granted civil list pension of £500 June 1864). _d._ Homburg 27
Sep. 1862. _Illust. news of the world_, _ii_ (1858), _portrait_;
_Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India_, _ii_
755 (1878–9), _portrait_; _The siege of Lucknow: a diary. By
Lady Inglis_ (1892).

INGLIS, SIR ROBERT HARRY, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Hugh
Inglis, 1 baronet, _d._ 1820). _b._ London 12 Jany. 1786; ed.
at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, created
D.C.L. 1826; a comr. for settlement of affairs of the Carnatic
1814–30; barrister L.I. 8 June 1818; M.P. Dundalk 1824–6; M.P.
Ripon 1828; M.P. univ. of Ox. 1829–54; P.C. 11 Aug. 1854; F.R.S.
4 March 1813; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1816, V.P. 1846–54; member of
record commission 12 March 1831; a trustee of British Museum
1834 to death; professor of antiquity in Royal academy 1850 to
death; president of Literary club usually called Dr. Johnson’s
club; edited Family prayers. By H. Thornton, M.P. 1834 and other
editions 1843, 1851 and 1854; with H. Hallam wrote Survey of the
principal repositories of the public records of Great Britain
and Ireland 1823; many of Inglis’ Speeches were printed 1825–53.
_d._ 7 Bedford sq. London 5 May 1855. _Ryall’s Portraits of
eminent conservatives and statesmen 1 series_, _portrait_;
_Fraser’s Mag. xxxiv_ 648–53 (1846); _I.L.N. i_ 240 (1842)
_portrait_, _xxiv_ 49 (1854) _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was the champion of the Protestant church and earned sobriquet of “Member for Heaven.” He opposed repeal of the test and corporation acts, Roman catholic relief and reform bills and admission of Jews to parliament.

INGLIS, WILLIAM. _b._ Midlem, Roxburghshire 1812 or 1813;
partner in firm of W. and R. Chambers, publishers, Edin. to
death; author of Book keeping by single entry 1866; Book keeping
by single and double entry 1858, other editions 1861 and 1867;
Farm book keeping 1866. _d._ Dick place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1887.

INGLIS, William (son of sir William Inglis, K.C.B. _d._ 1835).
_b._ 8 July 1823; ensign 4 foot 7 Feb. 1840; ensign 57 foot 6
March 1840, lieut. col. 21 May 1858 to 29 Jany. 1861; served in
Crimean war 1854–6; lieut. col. 9 foot 29 Jany. 1861 to 23 Jany.
1863; lieut. col. depot battalion 23 Jany. 1863 to 17 April 1866
when placed on h.p.; L.G. 15 March 1879; placed on retired list
with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._
Hildersham hall, Cambridge 21 Nov. 1888.

INGPEN, ABEL. F.L.S.; author of Instructions for preserving
British insects, crustacea and shells 1827; Instructions for
collecting, rearing and preserving British insects, also for
collecting and preserving British crustacea, together with a
description of entomological apparatus 1843; Manual for the
butterfly collector 1849. _d._ Chelsea 14 Sep. 1854.

INGPEN, WILLIAM ALFRED (youngest son of Thomas Ingpen, sec.
to sir James Burroughs, judge of common pleas 1816–20). _b._
Guilford st. Russell sq. London 23 Feb. 1812; exhibited 8
sporting pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st.
1830–8; a clerk of insolvent debtors’ court, Portugal st.
Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1842, clerk of the rules 1858 to 12 April
1865 when granted pension of £216. _d._ 3 Pountney road,
Lavender hill, London 29 July 1888.

INGRAM, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland; M.D.; surgeon in army of U.S.
of America, May 1861; served with 2nd cavalry in army of the
Potomac 1862–3; in charge of St. Aloysius hospital, Washington
1863, then of Judiciary sq. hospital; chief surgeon of the
troops in Southern California; chief medical officer in general
Wright’s army in Northern division of the Pacific coast; _lost_
in the wreck of steamship Brother Jonathan off coast of Oregon
30 July 1865. _Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. v_ 645 (1866).

INGRAM, AUGUSTUS HENRY. _b._ 1811; entered navy 13 Feb. 1821;
commander 8 June 1841 for his conduct in the Blonde’s boat at
siege of Canton; captain 5 June 1856, retired 1 July 1867;
retired R.A. 1 Jany. 1875; retired admiral 31 March 1885. _d._
10 Chilworth st. Westbourne terrace, London 5 Oct. 1888.

INGRAM, HERBERT (son of Herbert Ingram of Boston, Lincs.) _b._
Boston 27 May 1811; a journeyman printer in London 1832–4;
printer and bookseller with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Cooke
at Nottingham 1834; purchased from T. Roberts a druggist at
Manchester, a receipt for an aperient pill called Parr’s Life
Pill; they moved to London and started The Illustrated London
News at 198 Strand 14 May 1842 mainly to advertize their pill,
they dissolved partnership 1848; bought The Pictorial Times
1845, merged it in The Lady’s Newspaper which he started 2
Jany. 1847; started The London Telegraph 1 Feb. 1848, last
number appeared 9 July 1848; bought copyright and plant of The
London Journal from George Stiff 8 Oct. 1857 for £24,000; M.P.
for Boston 7 March 1856 to death; drowned with his eldest son
Herbert on board steamer Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan 8 Sep.
1860. _bur._ Boston cemetery 5 Oct., marble memorial statue
erected in Market place, Boston 1862. _C. Mackay’s Forty years
recollections_, _ii_ 64–75 (1877); _M. Jackson’s Pictorial
Press_ (1885) 284–311, _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s Journalistic
London_ (1882) 24, 222, _portrait_.

INGRAM, REV. JAMES (son of a farmer who lived to be 100). _b._
Logie Coldston, Aberdeenshire 3 April 1776; ed. at King’s
coll. Aberdeen 1791; assist. minister at Fetlar and North Yell
1800–3 and minister 1803; minister of Unst 1821–43; joined the
Free ch. 1843 and was minister of Unst Free ch. 1843 to death;
learnt Hebrew and German after he was 60; D.D. of Glasgow univ.;
presented with his portrait and a silver tea service 1872. d.
Unst 3 March 1879. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881); _Times
3 April 1876 p._ 6.

INGRAM, ROBERT HUGH WILSON, _b._ 1792 or 1793; barrister M.T.
20 June 1817, bencher 25 Jany. 1869; presented to Society of
Middle Temple, marble busts of the Prince of Wales and of Edmund
Plowden placed in Middle Temple hall 1868. _d._ Slough, Bucks.
29 Jany. 1869.

INGRAM, WALTER (youngest son of Herbert Ingram 1811–60). _b._
1855; officer in Middlesex yeomanry cavalry; travelled in
Zululand; went up the Nile in his steam launch and joined Sir H.
Stewart’s brigade in its march across Bayuda desert; attached to
lord C. Beresford’s naval corps and was in battles of Abu Klea
and Metammeh 1885; went up the Nile to within sight of Khartoum,
Feb. 1885, rewarded with a medal; _killed_ by an elephant which
he had wounded near Berbera east coast of Africa 6 April 1888.
_Times 11 April 1888 p._ 5, _col._ 5.

INGS, EDWARD. Barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; a legal coach at 40
Great James st. Bedford row, London many years; author of The
act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process in civil
actions, with rules, orders and cases and an appendix of forms
1840. _d._ 40 Great James st. London 2 May 1885 aged 76.

INMAN, REV. JAMES (younger son of Richard Inman of Garsdale
Foot, Sedbergh, Yorkshire). b. 1776; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Cam., fellow 1800, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman
1800, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1805, B.D. 1815, D.D. 1820; sailed round
the world with Flinders as astronomer; professor of mathematics
at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1808–39; principal of the
school of naval architecture, Portsmouth 1810–39; author of The
scriptural doctrine of divine grace. A sermon 1820; A treatise
on navigation and nautical astronomy. Portsea 1821, 3 ed. 1835;
An introduction to naval gunnery. Portsea 1828; Nautical tables
for the use of British seamen 1860, 4 ed. 1888 and other books.
_d._ Southsea 2 Feb. 1859.

INMAN, REV. JAMES WILLIAMS (son of the preceding). Ed. St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; fellow of his coll.
1835–7; head master Grantham gram. sch. 1837–58; master of
Pymsent’s sch. Chudleigh 1858–77; C. of Knighton, Devon 1863–72;
edited some of his Father’s works 1860–88; author of Orioma, the
reclaimed, a drama. Grantham 1858; Latitudes and longitudes of
places on the seabord 1865; The chasuble not Anglican but Roman
1867. _d._ 1889.

INMAN, THOMAS (2 son of Charles Inman, director of the bank
of Liverpool, who _d._ 1858). _b._ Rutland st. Leicester 27
Jany. 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. Eng. and
L.S.A. 1842; M.D. Lond. 1844; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon in
Liverpool 1842–71; house surgeon Liverpool infirmary; author of
Spontaneous combustion. Liverpool 1855; Foundation for a new
theory of medicine 1860, 2 ed. 1861; Ancient faiths embodied
in ancient names 2 vols. 1868–9, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1872–3; The
preservation of health 1870, 3 ed. 1872; Ancient pagan and
modern christian symbolism explained 1869, 3 ed. 1880 and other
books. _d._ Clifton 3 May 1876.

INMAN, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester 6
April 1825; clerk successively to Nathan Cairns and to Cater
& Co. merchants, Liverpool; clerk to Richardson Brothers,
merchants, Liverpool and a partner Jany. 1849, managed the fleet
of American sailing packets and purchased the City of Glasgow
and 4 other iron screw ships 1850–6; formed the Liverpool, New
York and Philadelphia steamship co. better known as the Inman
line 1857; established a fortnightly line to New York 1857, a
weekly service 1860, three times a fortnight 1863; carried the
mail between England and America; launched the City of Berlin
1875 largest steam vessel afloat except the Great Eastern. _d._
Upton manor near Birkenhead 3 July 1881. _bur._ Moreton parish
church 6 July. _History of merchant shipping. By W. S. Lindsay_,
_iv_ 251–60, 611–2 (1876); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. clxviii_
177, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iv_ 467 (1880).

INNES, _Anne_ (eld. dau. of Charles Innes of Fleet st. and
Hatton garden, London). Joint proprietor and editor with her
sisters Eliza and Maria Catherine of the peerage known as Sams’s
annual peerage 2 vols. 1827 after its publisher Wm. Sams of St.
James’ st. London, in 1832 it was published by H. Colburn with
the altered title of Lodge’s Peerage, the Norroy king at arms
allowing his name to be placed on it to oblige the Misses Innes.
The surviving sister edited The Peerage to 1862; it is the only
work which gives the births of the female nobility. _d._ High
st. Hounslow 24 March 1856. _G.M. i_ 253 (1856).

NOTE.--Eliza Innes _d._ about 1857 and Maria Catherine Innes _d._ 4 Thorne road, South Lambeth, London 13 Dec. 1880 in 85 year. _Times 21 Dec. 1880 p._ 11 _col._ 1. Eliza and Maria C. Innes compiled the Index to Davies Gilbert’s Parochial history of Cornwall (1838) vol. iii. pp. 395–571.

INNES, COSMO NELSON (youngest son of John Innes of Leuchars,
Elginshire, writer to the signet). _b._ Durris manor house,
Kincardineshire 9 Sep. 1798; ed. at Aberdeen univ. and Glasgow
univ. from which he was a Snell exhibitioner to Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; called to Scottish bar 1822; one
of advocates depute 1833; sheriff of Elginshire 1840–52; a
principal clerk of session 23 Feb. 1852 to death; professor of
civil history in univ. of Edin. 19 Nov. 1846 to 1862, professor
of history there 1862 to death; member of Bannatyne, Spalding
and Maitland clubs and Scottish Burghs’ Record Soc. for which he
edited many Cartularies and other works 1832–64, 25 in number;
edited with T. Thomson, Acts of the parliaments of Scotland 12
vols. 1814–75 for Commissioners on Public Records; author of
Sketches of early Scottish history 1861; Scotland in the middle
ages 1860. _d._ Killin near Crieff, Perthshire 31 July 1874.
_bur._ Warriston cemet. Edinburgh 5 Aug. _Memoirs of Cosmo
Innes_ (1874); _Proc. of R. Soc. of Edin. viii_ 453–60 (1875).

INNES, FREDERICK MAITLAND. _b._ Scotland 1816; went to Australia
1833; member Tasmanian legislative assembly 2 Dec. 1856;
colonial treasurer 25 April 1857 to 1 Nov. 1862; colonial
secretary 1 Nov. 1862 to 20 Jany. 1863; colonial treasurer and
premier 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873; colonial treasurer 13 March
1875 to 20 July 1876; member legislative council 1862, president
legislative council 1876. _d._ Hobart Town, May 1882. _Heaton’s
Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 156.

INNES, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ 30 May 1811; ensign 61 Bengal N.I.
3 June 1829, major 3 July 1855; lieut. col. Bengal Infantry
15 July 1859, col. 10 Nov. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on
retired list 30 May 1881. _d._ 13 Dunsford place, Bath 5 May
1885.

INNES, REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. James Innes of Yester). _b._
1775; presbyterian minister Stirling 1793, deposed from his
charge 8 Oct. 1799; chaplain Stirling castle 1793; minister at
the Tabernacle, Dundee 1800; pastor of a Baptist congregation,
Edinburgh; bookseller Edinburgh; D.D. of Washington coll.
Pennsylvania 1848; author of Reasons for separating from the
church of Scotland. Dundee 1804; Sketches of human nature.
Edin. 1807; Liberia, or the history of the American colony of
free Negroes 1831, 2 ed. 1833; Suggestions for thoughtful but
sceptical minds 1854 and many other books. _d._ Edinburgh 8
March 1855. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _ii part_ 2
_p._ 680 (1869).

INSKIP, JOHN SWANNELL. _b._ Huntingdon 10 Aug. 1816; taken
to U.S. of America 1821; a preacher in Methodist Episcopal
church 1835; attained distinction as an orator and conductor of
camp-meetings; edited The Christian Standard; author of Life of
Rev. William Summers a blind man. Baltimore; Methodism explained
and defended. Philadelphia 1856. _d._ Ocean Grove, New Jersey 7
March 1884.

INSKIP, REV. ROBERT MILLS. _b._ 1816; naval instructor R.N. 22
Dec. 1836, chaplain 14 June 1853, retired 25 July 1871; C.B. 2
June 1869; author of Navigation and nautical astronomy 1869, new
ed. 1871. _d._ 22 Torrington place, Plymouth 17 Dec. 1890.

INSKIPP, JAMES. _b._ 1790; in the commissariat service, retired
with a pension; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A., 83 at B.I. and
56 at Suffolk st. 1816–64; his pictures were chiefly small
subject-pictures and portraits, some of them were engraved;
illustrated Sir Harris Nicolas’s edition of Izaac Walton’s
Complete Angler 1833–6; published a series of engravings from
his own drawings entitled, Studies of heads from nature 1838.
_d._ Godalming, Surrey 15 March 1868.

INVERARITY, JONATHAN DUNCAN. _b._ 1812 or 1813; entered Bombay
civil service 1830; comr. in Scinde 1859–62; member of council
at Bombay 24 March 1862–65 when he retired on annuity. _d._
Rosemount, Forfarshire 28 April 1882.

INVERNESS, CECILIA LETITIA GORE UNDERWOOD, Duchess of (8 dau. of
2 earl of Arran 1734–1809). _b._ 1788. (_m._ (1) 14 May 1815 sir
George Buggin who _d._ Great Cumberland place, London 12 April
1825 aged 65; _m._ (2) 1830 Augustus Frederick 1 duke of Sussex,
he was _b._ Buckingham house 27 Jany. 1773, _d._ Kensington
palace 21 April 1843); assumed her maternal surname of Underwood
by sign manual 2 May 1831; cr. duchess of Inverness 10 April
1840. _d._ Kensington palace, London 1 Aug. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_
135 (1873).

IONS, THOMAS (eld. son of James Ions of Gateshead, Durham).
_b._ 1817; organist St. Nicholas ch. Newcastle 1835 to death;
conductor Sacred harmonic and choral soc. Newcastle 1852 to
death; Mus. Bac. (Magdalen hall) Oxf. 10 July 1848, Mus. Doc. 3
Feb. 1854; composer of Clear serene eyes, a canzonet 1845; By
the waters of Babylon, an anthem for five voices 1848; Cantica
ecclesiastica, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes 1850, 3 ed.
1855, besides songs and other pieces of music. _d._ Westmoreland
ter. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Sep. 1857. _Newcastle Chronicle 2 Oct.
1857 p._ 8.

IRELAND, JAMES. _b._ Horsham 10 March 1811; went to Brighton to
reside with his uncle the proprietor of tea gardens and cricket
ground 1823; a carpenter, a wood merchant and a builder 1844;
opened up several new districts in Preston and Hove and built a
large number of houses; a founder of Brighton gram. sch. 1859;
vice chairman of board of guardians 1868–71; member of school
board Nov. 1870, chairman to death; mayor of Brighton 1872–4.
_d._ 74 Dyke road, Brighton 20 March 1877. _Sussex Daily News 21
March 1877 p._ 3.

IRELAND, RICHARD DAVIES. _b._ Galway; barrister King’s Inns,
Dublin, Nov. 1838; went to Victoria, Australia 1852; admitted
to Victorian bar 24 Feb. 1853; defended the Ballarat rioters
Dec. 1854; member of legislature from 1857; solicitor general,
Victoria 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, 26 Nov. 1860 to 29 July
1861 and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; Q.C. 14 Aug. 1863. _d._
Melbourne 1875. _Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 158.

IREMONGER, WILLIAM. _b._ 31 Aug. 1776; ensign 18 foot 29 Feb.
1792; lieut. col. 2 foot 17 March 1808 to 2 May 1811; K.C.
_d._ Wherwell priory near Andover, Hants. 21 Jany. 1852. _G.M.
xxxvii_ 521 (1852).

IRONS, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Ware, Herts. 5 Nov. 1785; ordained an
independent minister 21 May 1814; minister at Hoddesdon, Herts.
1814–15, at Sawston, Cambridge 1815–18 and at Grove chapel,
Camberwell, Surrey 1818 to death; author of Zion’s hymns: a
supplement to Dr. Watts’ Psalms and hymns. Saffron Walden 1816,
10 ed. 1846; Jazer: assistance for the weak in faith 1821, 21
ed. 1880; Calvary, a poem, 2 ed. 1834; The true church of God
as described in the oracles of God, 3 ed. 1837; Nymphas: an
exposition of the Song of Solomon in blank verse 1841; Grove
chapel pulpit: Discourses 4 vols. 1848–51 and 14 other books.
_d._ Camberwell 3 April 1852. _G. Bayfield’s Memoir of rev. J.
Irons_ (1852).

IRONS, REV. WILLIAM JOSIAH (2 son of the preceding). _b._
Hoddesdon, Herts. 12 Sep. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A.
1834, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1842, D.D. 1854; C. of St. Mary, Newington
Butts, London 1835–37; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1837–38; V.
of Barkway, Herts. 1838–40; P.C. of Brompton, London 1840–70;
preb. of St. Paul’s cath. Dec. 1860 to death; R. of Waddingham,
Lincs. 1870–72; Bampton lecturer 1870; R. of St. Mary Woolnoth
with St. Mary Woolchurch, Haw, London 7 June 1872 to death; one
of editors of Literary Churchman, in which he wrote leading
articles May 1855 to Dec. 1861; author of On the Holy catholic
church: lectures, three series 1837–47; Our Blessed Lord
regarded in his earthly relationship 1844; Notes of the church
1845, 3 ed. 1846; The miracles of Christ: sermons 1859; Analysis
of human responsibility 1869; Occasional sermons 1876. _d._ 20
Gordon sq. London 18 June 1883. _C. Mackeson’s Church congress
handbook_ (1877) 98–100; _Guide to the church congress_ (1883)
_p._ 46; _Times 20, 21 June 1883_.

IRONSIDE, ADELAIDE ELIZA (dau. of James Ironside, accountant,
_d._ Sydney 20 July 1866 aged 63). _b._ Sydney 17 Nov. 1831;
studied in Rome 1856–7; painted ‘The marriage in Cana of
Galilee’ and ‘The pilgrim of art’ shown at Great exhibition,
London 1862; also painted ‘The presentation of the Magi to
the infant Jesus,’ which with 2 other subjects was sent to
Australia; sent fugitive poems signed A. E. I. to the colonial
press. _d._ Rome 15 April 1867. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of
Dates_ (1879) 100.

IRTON, SAMUEL (eld. son of Edmund Lamplugh Irton of Irton hall,
Ravenglass, Cumberland, _d._ 1820). _b._ Irton hall 29 Sep.
1796; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. western
div. of Cumberland 1833–47 and 1852–7. _d._ 10 July 1866.

IRVINE, ALEXANDER (son of a farmer). _b._ Daviot, Aberdeenshire
1793; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; schoolmaster at Albury,
Surrey, in London, at Bristol and at Guildford; kept a school at
Chelsea from 1851; connected with Irvingite ch. White Notley,
Essex; a botanist in the neighbourhood of London; edited The
Phytologist 6 vols. 1855–63; F.B.S.; author of The London Flora
1838, new ed. 1846; Illustrated handbook of British plants
1858; Botanists’ Chronicle 17 numbers 1865; Introduction to
the science of botany 1858. _d._ Upper Manor st. Chelsea 13
May 1873. _Journal of Botany_ (1873) _p._ 222; _Gardeners’
Chronicle_ (1873) 1017.

IRVINE, ALEXANDER FORBES (eld. son of Alexander Forbes Irvine
1777–1861). _b._ 18 Feb. 1818; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and
Edinburgh; called to Scotch bar 1843; clerk to the justiciary
court; convener of the county of Aberdeen 1862; sheriff of
Argyll 1874–91; F.R.S.E. 1874, a vice pres. 1884–5. _d._ Drum
castle, Aberdeenshire 4 April 1892.

IRVINE, HANS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. and
M.B. 1833; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1837, president; lecturer on anatomy
and surgery, medical school, Marlborough st.; hon. sec. royal
zoological soc. of Dublin. _d._ University club, Dublin 1 March
1882.

IRVINE, JAMES (eld. son of John Irvine of Meadowburn, Menmuir,
Forfarshire). _b._ 1833; studied at Edinb. acad.; portrait
painter at Arbroath and then at Montrose, one of best portrait
painters in Scotland, also a landscape painter. _d._ Brunswick
cottage, Hillside, Montrose 17 March 1889. _Dundee Advertiser 18
March 1889._

IRVINE, JAMES PEARSON (3 son of Dr. James Pearson Irvine). _b._
Galgate, Lancaster, March 1842; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
B.A. London 1862, B. Sc. 1864, M.B. 1870, M.D. 1871; L.R.C.P.
Edin. 1864; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1874, F.R.C.P. 1879; in practice at
Liverpool 1864–74 and in London 1874 to death; assist. physician
Charing Cross hospital 1874 and lecturer on botany, lecturer on
forensic medicine, demonstrator of morbid anatomy and subdean
of the medical school; a frequent contributor to medical
journals; author of Tales of a father 1860; Relapse of typhoid
fever especially with reference to the temperature 1880. _d._
3 Mansfield st. Portland place, London 15 Oct. 1880. _Medical
Times_, _ii_ 606 (1880); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ix_ 48
(1882).

IRVING, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Dalton, Dumfriesshire; schoolmaster;
LL.D.; author of A catechism of astronomy, 6 ed. 1819; A
catechism of general geography 1820, 12 ed. 1867; A catechism
of Roman history 1821; Elements of permanent and field
fortifications 1828; An outline of the kingdom of nature 1841
and upwards of 20 other school books. _d._ Lea, Gloucestershire
27 Feb. 1856.

IRVING, DAVID (4 son of Janetus Irving _d._ April 1815). _b._
Langholm, Dumfriesshire 5 Dec. 1778; ed. at univ. of Edin.,
M.A. 1801; LL.D. of univ. of Aberdeen 1813; D.C.L. of Göttingen
1837; principal librarian of Faculty of Advocates, Edin. June
1820, resigned Dec. 1848; author of The elements of English
composition 1801, 11 ed. 1841; The lives of the Scottish poets
2 vols. 1804, 2 ed. 1810; Memoirs of the life and writings of
George Buchanan 1807, 2 ed. 1817; Observations on the study of
civil law 1815, several editions; The history of Scottish poetry
1861; edited works for the Bannatyne and the Maitland clubs
1821–32; contributed to seventh ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica
27 biographical memoirs and some articles on law; left 7000
vols. of books. _d._ 6 Meadow place, Edinb. 10 May 1860. _D.
Irving’s Scottish poetry_ (1861), _with Memoir by D. Laing pp.
xi–xxiv_; _Gent. Mag. viii_ 645, _ix_ 320–1 (1860).

IRVING, GEORGE. _b._ 1774; second lieut. royal Irish artillery
16 Dec. 1793, captain 1 July 1794 to 1 April 1801 when he
retired on full pay, the corps being amalgamated with the R.A.;
general 16 Dec. 1856. _d._ Balmae, Kirkcudbrightshire 22 Nov.
1864.

IRVING, GEORGE VERE (only child of Alexander Irving, lord
Newton, _d._ 1832). _b._ 1815; advocate at Scotch bar 1837;
captain of the Carnwarth troop of volunteers; F.S.A. Scot.;
Assoc. British Archæological Assoc. 1852 and member of council;
author of Digest of the law of the assessed taxes in Scotland.
Edin. 1841; Digest of the inhabited house tax act. Edin. 1852;
and with A. Murray of The upper ward of Lanarkshire 3 vols.
Glasgow 1864. _d._ 5 St. Mark’s crescent, Regent’s park, London
29 Oct. 1869. _Journal British Archæological Assoc. xxvi_ 267–8
(1870); _Notes and Queries 4 ser. iv_ 398 (1869).

IRVING, JACOB ÆMILIUS (son of Jacob Æmilius Irving of Ironshore,
Jamaica and of Liverpool). _b._ Charleston, South Carolina
29 Jany. 1797; cornet 13 light dragoons 18 May 1815, lieut.
1816 to 5 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; wounded at Waterloo
18 June 1815; presented with freedom of city of Liverpool for
his gallant conduct in the war; went to Canada 1834, aided in
suppressing rebellion on Niagara frontier 1837; first warden for
district of Simcoe; member of legislative council. _d._ Niagara
Falls 7 Oct. 1856.

IRVING, JOHN. Partner in firm of Reid, Irving and Co. merchants,
London; executed a contract for clothing the Russian army
amounting to £1,500,000, 1816–7; M.P. for Bramber 1806–32;
contested Clitheroe 1832 and Poole 1835; M.P. for co. Antrim
1837–45; chairman of Alliance British and foreign fire and life
insurance co. from its foundation 1824 to 1846. _d._ 1853.

IRVING, JOSEPH (son of Andrew Irving, joiner). _b._ Dumfries
2 May 1830; apprenticed to a printer, Dumfries; editor of
Dumbarton Herald 1854; bookseller Dumbarton to 1869; started the
Dumbarton Journal 1867; removed to Paisley 1880; wrote for the
Glasgow Herald and other papers; F.S.A. Scot. 1860; author of
The history of Dumbartonshire. Dumbarton 1857, 2 ed. 1860; The
annals of our Time: a diurnal of events from the accession of
queen Victoria 1869, 2 ed. 1871, 3 Supplements 1875, 79, 89; The
book of Scotsmen. Paisley 1881; The West of Scotland in history.
Glasgow 1885; The book of Dumbartonshire. Edinb. 3 vols. 1879.
_d._ Hillhead house, Paisley 2 Sep. 1891. _Stationery trades
journal 30 Sep. 1891 p._ 452; _Glasgow Herald 5 Sep. 1891_.

IRVING, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1840; appeared at Strand theatre;
played at Hull and other places in the provinces; appeared at
Haymarket theatre as Narcissus Fitzfrizzle in The Dancing Barber
6 Aug. 1866; played Jean Cochet in Alfred B. Richards’s drama
The Prisoner of Toulon at Drury Lane 2 March 1868, Jack in
Jack the giant killer, and Grimalkin in Puss in boots at Drury
Lane 1867–8 and 1868–9; played Uriah Heep in Halliday’s Little
Em’ly at Olympic 9 Oct. 1869; played in New York 1869; his
last appearance was as Boggle in The ‘Varsity boat race at the
Olympic 6 April 1870. _d._ from softening of the brain at 255
New Cross road, London 6 Sep. 1870. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 12
Sep. _The Era 11 Sep. 1870 p._ 10, _25 Sep. p._ 13.

IRVING, REV. MATTHEW (son of Matthew Irving of Langholme,
Dumfriesshire). Matric. from Pemb. coll. Ox. 20 March 1806 aged
26; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam., B.D. 1817, D.D. 1831; V. of
Sturminster Marshall, Dorset 25 April 1822 to death; preb.
of Rochester 1 Sep. 1824 to death; chaplain in ord. to the
Sovereign 1825 to death; P.C. of Chatham, Kent 28 June 1828 to
death; author of A sermon at the consecration of the church of
Hamworthy, Dorset 1826. _d._ Dover 6 Oct. 1857.

IRVING, REV. THOMAS, usually called Thomas Sherburne (son
of Joseph Irving). _b._ Kirkham, Lancs. 16 June 1779; ed.
at English coll. Valladolid 1788–1803, where he assumed his
mother’s name Sherburne; ordained a priest 1803; missioner
at Claughton 1804, at Blackburn 1805; pastor of The Willows,
Kirkham 1813–22 and 1824 to death; rector of Valladolid coll.
1822–4; vicar general of Lancashire district Jany. 1842 to
death; acquired considerable property on death of Mr. Wm.
Heatley 1840; built at cost of £10,000 St. John the Evangelist,
Kirkham, opened 23 April 1845, first R.C. ch. with a peal of
bells since days of queen Mary; gave evidence before select
committee on mortmain 1845; edited Whittingham’s The old
fashioned farmer’s motives for leaving the church of England and
embracing the Roman catholic faith 1815. _d._ Kirkham 17 Dec.
1854. _Gillow’s English catholics_, _iii_ 555–8 (1887).

IRWIN, FREDERICK CHIDLEY. Ensign 83 foot 25 March 1808, served
in Peninsula 1809–14; capt. 63 regt. 1828–42; commandant in
Western Australia 28 June 1836 to 15 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. on
h.p. 15 Dec. 1854, sold out 29 Aug. 1856; K.H. 1836; war medal
and 9 clasps. _d._ Cheltenham 31 March 1860.

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