founders of the National academy of design, and its vice-president from 1845 till 1830. Mr. Ingham was also one of the originators of the old " Sketch Club." His works include "The Laughing Girl," "The White Plume," "The Flower Girl," and "Day Dreams." He also executed portraits of the beauties of New York, and of Lafayette (1825), Gulian C. Verplanck, owned by the New York his- torical society (1830), and De Witt Clinton.
INGHAM, Samuel, lawyer, b. in Hebron, Conn.,
5 Sept., 1793; d. in Essex, Conn., 10 Nov., 1881.
He received a good education in Vermont, studied
law, was admitted to the bar of Connecticut in
1815, and settled in Saybrook in 1817. From 1827
till 1835, and again in 1843-'4, he was state's attor-
ney for Middlesex county. He was a judge of probate
from 1829 till 1833. judge of the Middlesex county
court from 1849 till 1853, and a representative in
congress from 1835 till 1839, having been elected
as a Democrat. He also served in the Connecticut
legislature, was its speaker for three years, and for
one year clerk of the house of representatives. He
was appointed by the state in 1837 an agent to
prosecute claims against the United States, and was
successful. In 1854 he was an unsuccessful candi-
date for U. S. senator. He was appointed com-
missioner of customs in 1857.
INGHAM, Samuel Delucenna, secretary of
the treasury, b. in Pennsylvania, 16 Sept., 1779 ; d.
in Trenton, N. J., 5 June, 1860. He received a
good education, and for several years was manager
of a paper-mill in New Jersey. For three years
he served in the Pennsylvania legislature, and was
prothonotary of one of the state courts. He was
elected to congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving
from 1813 till 1818, and again from 1822 till 1829,
and was chairman of several committees. He was
appointed by President Jackson secretary of the
treasury, but resigned when the cabinet was broken
up on account of Mrs. Eaton.
INGLE, Richard, mariner, b. probably in Lon-
don, England, early in the 17th century. In 1642
he commanded a ship from London that was seized
by the royalist governor of Maryland, but escaped,
and, securing a commission from parliament to
cruise in the waters of the Chesapeake against
" malignants," reappeared in February, 1645, in the
ship " Reformation." Taking advantage of a local
insurrection, he expelled Leonard Calvert, and held
possession of the government till August, 1646,
when Calvert regained control. Ingle was specially
excepted in a proclamation of amnesty. His exploit
is known as the " Claiborne and Ingle's rebellion,"
though it is not proved that the former acted with
Ingle. See " Richard Ingle, the Maryland Pirate
and Rebel," by Edward Ingle (Baltimore, 1884).
INGLIS, Charles, Anglican bishop, b. in Ire-
land in 1734; d. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 24 Feb.,
1816. He emigrated to this country, and previous
to 1759 took charge of the free school at Lancaster,
Pa. He was licensed by the Bishop of London in
December, 1758, and appointed missionary at Dov-
er, Del., by the Society for the propagation of the
fospel. He labored there from 1759 till 1765, when
e became assistant minister of Trinity church,
New York city. In 1775 he replied to Paine's
" Common Sense " by a pamphlet, which proved so
offensive to the " Sons of Liberty " that they com-
mitted it to the flames. Two editions were printed
subsequently at Philadelphia. Though requested
to do so by Washington, he refused to omit the
prayer for the king and royal family, and after the
Declaration of Independence he caused his church
to be closed, and retired in August, 1776, to
Flushing, L. L, which was then in possession of
the British. After Washington's defeat he fol-
lowed the royal army to New York, and was chosen
rector of Trinity church in 1777. In 1781-2 he
was chaplain to the 1st battalion of New Jersey
volunteers, and at the evacuation in 1783 went to
Halifax. In 1787 he
went to England,
and on 12 Aug. was
consecrated at Lam-
beth the first bishop
of Nova Scotia, with
jurisdiction over the
other North Ameri-
can provinces. He
had the distinction
of being the first co-
lonial bishop of the
Church of England.
In 1767 King's col-
lege (now Columbia)
conferred upon him
the degree of M. A.,
and in 1770 he became one of the governors of the college,
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an office which he retained until his removal from the city. He published " Essay on Infant Bap- tism " (New York) ; " A Vindication of the Bishop of Llandaff's Sermon " (New York) ; two sermons, and a letter in "Hawkins's Historical Notices." — His son, John, also bishop of Nova Scotia, and appointed a member of the council in 1825, died in London in 1850. — John's son, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, British soldier, b. in Halifax, N. S., in 1814; d. in Hamburg, Germany. 27 Sept., 1862, took part in the campaign of the Punjaub in 1848-'9. and obtained the rank of lieutenant-colo- nel. His regiment was at Lucknow when that place was besieged by the Sepoys in the summer of 1857, and after the death of Sir Henry Law- rence he succeeded to the command. He was knighted and brevetted major-general.
INGLIS, David, clergyman, b. in Greenlaw,
Berwickshire, Scotland, 8 June, 1825 ; d. in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., 15 Dec, 1877. He was graduated at
the University of Edinburgh in 1841, and, after
studying theology there, was licensed to preach in
1845, and came to the United States in 1846. He
held charges at Washington Heights, X. Y„ in
Bedford, N. Y., and Montreal and Hamilton,
Canada, and in 1871 removed to Toronto, hav-
ing been called by the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church of Canada to the chair of
systematic theology in Knox college, which he
held one year. In 1872 he accepted a call to a
Dutch Reformed church in Brooklyn, N. Y. In
the summer of 1877 he was a delegate of the Re-
formed church to the Presbyterian council at Edin-
burgh. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on
him by Olivet in 1872, and that of D. D. by Rut-
gers in 1874. He published Sunday-school lessons
in the " Sower and Gospel Field " (1874-'7) ; a ser-
mon on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Church
on the Heights, Brooklvn (1875) ; " Svstematic The-
ology in its Relation to Modern^Thought " (1876) ;
and prepared a course of "Vedder Lectures,"
which were to have been delivered in 1879.
INGLIS, James, clergvman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1777; d. in Baltimore, Md., 15 Aug., 1820. His father of the same name came to this country from Scotland about 1760. The family removed to New York about 1780, and James was graduated at Columbia in 1795, studied law with Alexander Hamilton, and practised at the New York bar. He then studied theology in New York, and was
