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.