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INGLIS, SIR R. H. (Con.)

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. į 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 thebutterfly 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 . 6. 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 steanıship 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 ; prin ter 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 Herberton 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, i 64 -75 (1877); M. Jackson 's Pictorial Press (1885 ) 284- 311, portrait; J. Hatton's Journalistic London (1882) 24, 222, portrait.