William Ingram

Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet (born October 27, 1847 , died December 18, 1924 ) was an English lawyer and politician. He was executive director of Illustrated London News and represented the Liberal Party in the House of Commons for three terms from 1878 to 1895 .

life and work

William Ingram was the son of Herbert Ingram and his wife Ann Little, the daughter of William Little, in the Manor House, Eye , Northamptonshire. His father was the founder of The Illustrated London News and was a member of the House of Commons for the Boston constituency in Lincolnshire.

Legal and commercial career

Ingram went to Winchester College and Trinity College of Cambridge University . On April 12, 1869 he was admitted to the Middle Temple , one of the four English bar associations ( Inns of Court ), and on April 12, 1870 for the Inner Temple . He was admitted to the bar on November 18 . His father and brother died in a ship accident with the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860 and Ingram took over the management of the Illustrated London News . He lived in Walton-on-Thames , Surrey , and was a magistrate (justice of the peace, JP) for Surrey and the Cinque Ports in Kent .

Political career

In 1874, Ingram was elected to the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Boston constituency and held the seat until 1880 when the representative office was dissolved. In 1885 he won the re-installed parliamentary seat again, but lost it again the following year. The last time Ingram was elected to parliament in 1892 and remained there until 1895. On August 9, 1893, he was bestowed the hereditary title of Baronet , of Swineshead Abbey in the County of Lincoln.

Commitment to science

Ingram was also the owner of a cocoa plantation in Trinidad as well as a hobby ornithologist and animal collector. In 1909 the British zoologist wrote an essay on On Mammals from Northern Australia presented to the National Museum by Sir Wm. Ingram, Bt., And the Hon. John Forrest . In 1919 Ingram introduced 50 Great Bird of Paradise ( Paradisaea apoda ) on Little Tobago Island , which he had purchased; the population could not hold up, however, in 1928 the island became a bird sanctuary based on his will. Ingram also financed a collection trip to Australia. Due to his commitment, he was honored as the namesake of the brown snake Pseudonaja ingrami , the northern flat-headed pouch ( Planigale ingrami ) and a subspecies of the Guyana squirrel ( Sciurus aestuans ingrami ).

Marriage and offspring

In 1874 he married Ingram Mary Eliza Collingwood Stirling. With her he had three sons:

• Sir Herbert Ingram, 2nd Baronet (1875–1958), his title heir
• Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877–1963),
• Collingwood Ingram (1880-1981).

Web links

• Sir William James Ingram, 1st Bt. On thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingram, William James . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume  3 : Gabb – Justamond . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1947, pp. 522 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs - Constituencies beginning with “B” (part 4) ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on September 30, 2016.  
3. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , p. 1.
4. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886  - Internet Archive .
5. ^ Leigh Rayment's list of baronets ; accessed on September 30, 2016.