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, Sunderland (opened by him) July 1861 to death; 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. b. 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–ii 1839–40. d. Scorton 31 Aug. 1868. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 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 Cambridge, 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), xl 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.
IMLACH, James. b. Banff, Scotland 8 May 1789; bookseller, Banff; collected materials for sir Walter Scott for a life of Macpherson the freebooter, a work never published; author of History of Banff and account of its inhabitants. Banff 1868. d. Castle Panton, Banff 13 July 1880. Banffshire Journal 20 July 1880 p. 5.
IMPEY, John (2 son of sir Elijah Impey 1732–1809, chief justice of Bengal). b. 1772; midshipman R.N. 28 April 1785; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on half pay 4 July 1855. d. Coly villa, Colyford 2 Aug. 1858.
IMRAY, James Frederick. b. 1829 or 1830; F.R.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of Pilotage rates of the ports of the United Kingdom 1858; Baltic pilot 1870; The Bay of Bengal pilot 1879; he also published for the admiralty, Sailing directions for the ports in the bay of Bengal 1866, and other books of Sailing Directions for various places 1866–76; with W. Rosser The lights and tides of the world 1869. d. St. Catharine’s, Beckenham, Kent 8 Oct. 1891. bur. Norwood cemetery 12 Oct.
IMRAY, John. b. in north of Scotland 11 Jany. 1811; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1831; M.D. Heidelberg 1842; practised at Roseau, Dominica, West Indies from 1832 to death; introduced the cultivation of limes and of Liberian coffee; member of executive council; chairman of board of health; a founder of the Roseau infirmary; author of Memoir on yaws in Gavin Milroy’s Report on leprosy and yaws in the West Indies 1873; wrote papers on The yellow fever, in Edin. Med. Journ. 1838–48; contributed to the Gardener’s Chronicle, the Technologist, the Journal of applied sciences and Nature. d. Dominica 22 Aug. 1880. Medical Times, ii 417 (1880).