George Ingram, 8th Viscount of Irvine
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George Ingram, 8th Viscount Irvine (or Irwin) (1694 – 1763) was an English clergyman and peer in the Peerage of Scotland. His occupation of the Viscountcy was brief, from 1761 to 1763. He was Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
The 8th Viscount Irvine was the sixth son of Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine (died 1702), of Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, and his wife Isabella Machell, daughter of John Machell, Member of Parliament for Horsham, of Hills (Horsham), Sussex,[1] and Helen Warmestry.[2] Baptized at Whitkirk, Yorkshire, he matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford on 7 June 1711, at the age of 17, and graduated BA in 1714. He obtained a Fellowship in the same college in 1716, took MA in 1717, and was ordained deacon at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford by Bishop John Potter on 21 December 1718. At Westminster St James he was ordained priest on 8 February following, by Bishop Talbot of Salisbury, and three days later was instituted Rector of Crudwell, Wiltshire, a living which he held until his death. In October 1723 he was also instituted to the perpetual vicarage of Hankerton, Wiltshire.[3] (Both Crudwell and Hankerton are parishes near Malmesbury.) He was appointed chaplain of the House of Commons in 1724, and was installed canon of Windsor and Prebendary of Westminster.[4]
Matters affecting succession of title
During all this period his elder brothers Edward (died 1714), Rich (died 1721) and Arthur (died 1736) were successively 4th, 5th and 6th Viscounts Irwin. On the death of Arthur, the fourth son, Henry, became seventh Viscount, and lived until 1761, making his tenure of the title the longest of any of the family. The fifth son, John Ingram, was either dead or presumed to be dead in January 1724/5,[5] when probate of a will in John's name dated 20 February 1714/5 was granted to his mother Viscountess Isabella. (This presents John as of Horsham, but belonging to a military regiment stationed in Ireland, and left a £5 annuity to one Mrs Bowyer of Portarlington, County Laois, and £100 to be shared between all her grandchildren after her decease. The substance of his estate and goods was left to his two executors, his mother and his brother Rich, in equal shares.[6]) The burial of a John Engrham, Esq is in the register of the church of St Mary, Horsham on 26 February 1714/15 and is assumed to be him. The Revd. George Ingram therefore inherited the title as the next male heir, as the 8th Viscount, and held it for two years until his death. As George's younger brothers Charles (died 1748), Thomas (died 1698 in infancy) and William (died 1756) had all predeceased him, the title passed lastly to his nephew Charles Ingram (1727-1778) (son of the seventh son Charles), the only remaining male heir of the 1st Viscount, with whose death in 1778 the title became extinct.[7]
