Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount of Irvine
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Sir Henry Slingsby (grandfather)
Sir Thomas Ingram (uncle)
The Viscount of Irvine | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Ingram 1640 |
| Died | 1666 (aged 25–26) |
| Spouse |
Lady Essex Montagu
(m. 1661) |
| Relations | Sir Arthur Ingram (grandfather) Sir Henry Slingsby (grandfather) Sir Thomas Ingram (uncle) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Eleanor Slingsby Sir Arthur Ingram |
Henry Ingram (1640 – 1666) was the first to hold the title Lord Ingram, and Viscount Irvine, in the Peerage of Scotland, which in English sources is usually written Viscount Irwin. The Viscountcy existed in four generations of his family before becoming extinct: the seat was at Temple Newsam near Leeds, in Yorkshire.
Henry Ingram was baptized at Whitkirk, Yorkshire in 1641. He was the third of four sons (and three daughters) born to the former Eleanor Slingsby (a daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby, MP).[1] and Sir Arthur Ingram Jr. of Temple Newsam (d. 1655), the Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1629 to 1630. His brother, the eldest son, died in infancy. After the death of his mother in 1647, his father remarried to Katherine Fairfax (the second daughter of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Viscount Fairfax of Emley).[2]
His paternal grandparents were the notable landowner and Member of Parliament Sir Arthur Ingram Sr. (1565–1642)[3] and his first wife, the former Susan Brown (daughter of Richard Brown). After his grandmother's death in 1613, his grandfather's remarried to Alice Ferrers, and they were the parents of his half-uncle, Sir Thomas Ingram, who became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1664 to 1672. After Alices' death, Sir Arthur married for a third time to Mary Greville (d. 1661) (a daughter of Sir Edward Greville of Milcote).
His grandfather purchased Temple Newsam in 1622 and, through a destruction by fire in March 1635/6,[4] rebuilt the mansion over the next 20 years, incorporating part of the house formerly belonging to the Earls and Dukes of Lennox in which Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, father of King James I, had been born in 1545. Henry's father inherited his grandfather's estate upon his death in 1642.