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.
IRWIN, William. b. 3 Dec. 1810; ensign 88 foot 3 Nov. 1827, major 18 Jany. 1848 to 26 Dec. 1851; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 26 Dec. 1851 to 7 June 1854 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. Kilkenny district 1854–56; col. of 34 foot 2 Aug. 1875, of 88 foot 9 April 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 Dec. 1880. d. St. Catherine’s park, Leixlip, Kildare 22 Dec. 1889.
ISAAC, Samuel (son of Lewis Isaac of Poole, Dorset). b. Chatham 1815; army contractor in London as Isaac, Campbell and Co. 1850–63, merchant in London 1863–71; their ships during 1861–65 were employed as blockade runners in supplying the southern states of the U.S. of America with military stores; ruined on the conclusion of the war 1865; raised the 5th Northampton rifle corps from his factory at Northampton 1860, captain commandant 3 March 1860, major 1868–74; purchased rights of promoters of Mersey tunnel 1880 and completed the boring 17 Jany. 1884, opened by Prince of Wales 20 Jany. 1886; formed a collection of paintings containing many by B. W. Leader. d. 29 Warrington crescent, Maida vale, London 22 Nov. 1886, left £203,084 17s. 9d. Jewish Chronicle 26 Nov. 1886 p. 10; Times 26 Nov. 1886 p. 6; I.L.N. 30 Jany. 1886 p. 111.