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 the butterfly 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. b. 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 steamship 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; printer 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 Herbert on 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, ii 64–75 (1877); M. Jackson’s Pictorial Press (1885) 284–311, portrait; J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 24, 222, portrait.
INGRAM, Rev. James (son of a farmer who lived to be 100). b. Logie Coldston, Aberdeenshire 3 April 1776; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1791; assist. minister at Fetlar and North Yell 1800–3 and minister 1803; minister of Unst 1821–43; joined the Free ch. 1843 and was minister of Unst Free ch. 1843 to death; learnt Hebrew and German after he was 60; D.D. of Glasgow univ.; presented with his portrait and a silver tea service 1872. d. Unst 3 March 1879. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); Times 3 April 1876 p. 6.
INGRAM, Robert Hugh Wilson, b. 1792 or 1793; barrister M.T. 20 June 1817, bencher 25 Jany. 1869; presented to Society of Middle Temple, marble busts of the Prince of Wales and of Edmund Plowden placed in Middle Temple hall 1868. d. Slough, Bucks. 29 Jany. 1869.
INGRAM, Walter (youngest son of Herbert Ingram 1811–60). b. 1855; officer in Middlesex yeomanry cavalry; travelled in Zululand; went up the Nile in his steam launch and joined Sir H. Stewart’s brigade in its march across Bayuda desert; attached to lord C. Beresford’s naval corps and was in battles of Abu Klea and Metammeh 1885; went up the Nile to within sight of Khartoum, Feb. 1885, rewarded with a medal; killed by an elephant which he had wounded near Berbera east coast of Africa 6 April 1888. Times 11 April 1888 p. 5, col. 5.
INGS, Edward. Barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; a legal coach at 40 Great James st. Bedford row, London many years; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process in civil actions, with rules, orders and cases and an appendix of forms 1840. d. 40 Great James st. London 2 May 1885 aged 76.
INMAN, Rev. James (younger son of Richard Inman of Garsdale Foot, Sedbergh, Yorkshire). b. 1776; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1800, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1800, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1805, B.D. 1815, D.D. 1820; sailed round the world with Flinders as astronomer; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1808–39; principal of the school of naval architecture, Portsmouth 1810–39; author of The scriptural doctrine of divine grace. A sermon 1820; A treatise on navigation and nautical astronomy. Portsea 1821, 3 ed. 1835; An introduction to naval gunnery. Portsea 1828; Nautical tables for the use of British seamen 1860, 4 ed. 1888 and other books. d. Southsea 2 Feb. 1859.