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ILCHESTER, 3 Earl of ( Con .)

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 Gate worth 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, Sunder- land (opened by him ) July 1861 to death;

ILIFF, Rev. G. (Con.)

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. 6 .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-ij 1839 – 40. d. Scorton 31 Aug. 1868. Giļlow's English Catholics, iiï 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 Cam bridge, 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), al 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.