Robert Ingram (1726 - 1804)

Born 9 Mar 1726 in Beverley, Yorkshire

Husband of Catherine (Acklom) Ingram — married 1759 in Beverley, Yorkshire, England

Died 3 Aug 1804 at age 78 in Son's House, Segrave, Loughborough, Leicestershire

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Biography

Birth and Baptism

Robert Ingram was born 9 March 1726 in Beverley, East Yorkshire, and his baptism recorded soon after. ^[1]

Education

Robert was educated at Beverley Grammar School under John Clarke and 1745 gained entry to Corpus Christi College Cambridge where he graduated with a B.A. 1749 and M.A. 1753. A Fellow of the College, but not beyond 1759 when his marriage would disqualify him as a Fellow.

Marriage in Beverley 1759

In 1759 in Beverley, Rev Robert Ingram married Catherine Acklom daughter of Richard Acklom of Wiseton Hall.^[2]

Prospects of Peerage

At the time of the marriage, Rev Robert Ingram of Beverley, was widely believed to be heir presumptive to the Viscountcy of Irvine. The incumbent and his immediate heir were both elderly gentlemen George & Charles Ingram who both died with no descendants. In the event, the title was declared extinct in 1778.

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Churches Served

For most of his married life Robert Ingram's home and principal benefice was as Vicar of St Andrew's Wormingford in Essex not far north of Colchester. The village was not large, but he clearly invested considerable energy and funds in rebuilding the vicarage as a family home 1760-65. ^[4]

Robert was also Vicar of St. Peter's Boxted, a small village closer to Colchester which would not be hard to supervise from Wormingford, though this notion was not important to many clergy at the time.

Robert was certainly vicar of Orston in Nottinghamshire from 1759 and we do not know when (if ever) he gave up this income. He became perpetual curate of Bredhurst in Kent 1758 and only resigned in 1762 though the task (as opposed to the income) was incompatible with residence in Wormingford. ^[5]

Children

Robert and Catherine's children included Rowland Ingram born 1760 and Robert Acklom Ingram baptised in Beverley 1763. Clearly the family sometimes lived in Beverley. Was this link to Ingram or to Acklom property in the town? Both families had had homes in the town in earlier generations,

Death and Burial

Robert died 3 Aug 1804 at his son's home in Seagrave near Loughborough in Leicestershire aged 78 and was buried there soon after. ^{[6] [7]}

Will 1796 links Ancestors and Descendants

Robert Ingram's Will date September 30, 1796, proved September 13, 1804 makes reference to property on Gracechurch Street and Jerusalem Alley in London being left to Robert Acklom Ingram - further evidence that this Robert's lineage goes back to Ralph Ingram, London Merchant Taylor who died in 1695.

Acknowledgement

The sources for most of this profile were assembled by Diana Thomson and imported by her from Thomson Web Site : MyHeritage Family tree: 253782481-3

Sources

1. ↑ Beverley Minster General Register Baptism : 21 March 1726 : Robert Ingram
2. ↑ Excerpt from 'Three Essex Worthies' - The Felstedian, Vol. XI, June 1887, No. 118  : Robert Ingram, a member of an old Lincolnshire family, long domiciled in London, married the third daughter of Richard Acklom, Esq., of Wixton (Wiseton), in the County of Nottingham......" -.
3. ↑ Excerpt from 'Three Essex Worthies' - The Felstedian, Vol. XI, June 1887, No. 118 Mr. I. was of the same family which was enobled, in 1661, by the title of Irwine. We believe he was of an older branch, and nearly allied to the title; and probably was the only surviving relative in the Ingram line, as this title is now extinct, or in abeyance. Many in the family have been in a mercantile capacity. Arthut I., the grandfather of the first Viscount, who purchased Temple Newsham,in Yorkshire, the residence of the Irvine family, was a wealthy London merchant. Mr. I's father was also a London tradesman, but relinquished business early in life, about the time he married Theodosia, the younger daughter of Joseph Gascoigne esq., a gentleman that had been employed under Government in a diplomatic capacity, and was for some time collector of the Royal revenues at Minorca.
4. ↑ General Register of Wormingford Parish (Extracted Terriers) : FHL : British Film (1565717 Items 20-26) reveals that Robert made a number of improvements at the Wormingford vicarage. 1761 - Robert Ingram pulled down the middle part of the vicarage which consisted of a kitchen or common dwelling room, a cellar or pantry below and the irregular chambers above without any fireplace and built in the room of ??? ?? little parlour and kitchen with the two chambers and two garrets over it... 1762 New rough-casted all of ?south and ?west end and part of north end and put in new windows to make ??? uniform with the new building and pulled down and rebuilt the stable. 1764 - Almost fitted up new in the inside with two chambers and closets at the south end, new rough casted at only end of the back. Kitchen remaining undone, built new ???? house and a brick ???? over 4th ???? besides enclosing the back fences?. 1765 - Completed the great parlour....
5. ↑ Obituary with Anecdotes of Remarkable Persons - September 1804, Excerpts - pages 882 and 883.
6. ↑ Burial All Saints Parish Church, Seagrave, Leicestershire, England 10 Aug 1804. Robert Ingram
7. ↑ August' 3, 1804. At his son's house at Segrave, near Loughbrough, aged 77, the Rev. Robert Ingram, M.A., vicar of Wormingford and Boxted, co. Essex, formerly of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, of which he was sometime fellow; B.A. 1749; M.A. 1753.