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Rh founders of the National academy of design, and its vice-president from 1845 till 1830. Mr. Ingham was also one of the originators of the old " Sketch Club." His works include "The Laughing Girl," "The White Plume," "The Flower Girl," and "Day Dreams." He also executed portraits of the beauties of New York, and of Lafayette (1825), Gulian C. Verplanck, owned by the New York his- torical society (1830), and De Witt Clinton.

INGHAM, Samuel, lawyer, b. in Hebron, Conn., 5 Sept., 1793; d. in Essex, Conn., 10 Nov., 1881. He received a good education in Vermont, studied law, was admitted to the bar of Connecticut in 1815, and settled in Saybrook in 1817. From 1827 till 1835, and again in 1843-'4, he was state's attor- ney for Middlesex county. He was a judge of probate from 1829 till 1833. judge of the Middlesex county court from 1849 till 1853, and a representative in congress from 1835 till 1839, having been elected as a Democrat. He also served in the Connecticut legislature, was its speaker for three years, and for one year clerk of the house of representatives. He was appointed by the state in 1837 an agent to prosecute claims against the United States, and was successful. In 1854 he was an unsuccessful candi- date for U. S. senator. He was appointed com- missioner of customs in 1857.

INGHAM, Samuel Delucenna, secretary of the treasury, b. in Pennsylvania, 16 Sept., 1779 ; d. in Trenton, N. J., 5 June, 1860. He received a good education, and for several years was manager of a paper-mill in New Jersey. For three years he served in the Pennsylvania legislature, and was prothonotary of one of the state courts. He was elected to congress as a Jackson Democrat, serving from 1813 till 1818, and again from 1822 till 1829, and was chairman of several committees. He was appointed by President Jackson secretary of the treasury, but resigned when the cabinet was broken up on account of Mrs. Eaton.

INGLE, Richard, mariner, b. probably in Lon- don, England, early in the 17th century. In 1642 he commanded a ship from London that was seized by the royalist governor of Maryland, but escaped, and, securing a commission from parliament to cruise in the waters of the Chesapeake against " malignants," reappeared in February, 1645, in the ship " Reformation." Taking advantage of a local insurrection, he expelled Leonard Calvert, and held possession of the government till August, 1646, when Calvert regained control. Ingle was specially excepted in a proclamation of amnesty. His exploit is known as the " Claiborne and Ingle's rebellion," though it is not proved that the former acted with Ingle. See " Richard Ingle, the Maryland Pirate and Rebel," by Edward Ingle (Baltimore, 1884).

INGLIS, Charles, Anglican bishop, b. in Ire- land in 1734; d. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 24 Feb., 1816. He emigrated to this country, and previous to 1759 took charge of the free school at Lancaster, Pa. He was licensed by the Bishop of London in December, 1758, and appointed missionary at Dov- er, Del., by the Society for the propagation of the fospel. He labored there from 1759 till 1765, when e became assistant minister of Trinity church, New York city. In 1775 he replied to Paine's " Common Sense " by a pamphlet, which proved so offensive to the " Sons of Liberty " that they com- mitted it to the flames. Two editions were printed subsequently at Philadelphia. Though requested to do so by Washington, he refused to omit the prayer for the king and royal family, and after the Declaration of Independence he caused his church to be closed, and retired in August, 1776, to Flushing, L. L, which was then in possession of the British. After Washington's defeat he fol- lowed the royal army to New York, and was chosen rector of Trinity church in 1777. In 1781-2 he was chaplain to the 1st battalion of New Jersey volunteers, and at the evacuation in 1783 went to Halifax. In 1787 he went to England, and on 12 Aug. was consecrated at Lam- beth the first bishop of Nova Scotia, with jurisdiction over the other North Ameri- can provinces. He had the distinction of being the first co- lonial bishop of the Church of England. In 1767 King's col- lege (now Columbia) conferred upon him the degree of M. A., and in 1770 he became one of the governors of the college, an office which he retained until his removal from the city. He published " Essay on Infant Bap- tism " (New York) ; " A Vindication of the Bishop of Llandaff's Sermon " (New York) ; two sermons, and a letter in "Hawkins's Historical Notices." — His son, John, also bishop of Nova Scotia, and appointed a member of the council in 1825, died in London in 1850. — John's son, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, British soldier, b. in Halifax, N. S., in 1814; d. in Hamburg, Germany. 27 Sept., 1862, took part in the campaign of the Punjaub in 1848-'9. and obtained the rank of lieutenant-colo- nel. His regiment was at Lucknow when that place was besieged by the Sepoys in the summer of 1857, and after the death of Sir Henry Law- rence he succeeded to the command. He was knighted and brevetted major-general.

INGLIS, David, clergyman, b. in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland, 8 June, 1825 ; d. in Brook- lyn, N. Y., 15 Dec, 1877. He was graduated at the University of Edinburgh in 1841, and, after studying theology there, was licensed to preach in 1845, and came to the United States in 1846. He held charges at Washington Heights, X. Y„ in Bedford, N. Y., and Montreal and Hamilton, Canada, and in 1871 removed to Toronto, hav- ing been called by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church of Canada to the chair of systematic theology in Knox college, which he held one year. In 1872 he accepted a call to a Dutch Reformed church in Brooklyn, N. Y. In the summer of 1877 he was a delegate of the Re- formed church to the Presbyterian council at Edin- burgh. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Olivet in 1872, and that of D. D. by Rut- gers in 1874. He published Sunday-school lessons in the " Sower and Gospel Field " (1874-'7) ; a ser- mon on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Church on the Heights, Brooklvn (1875) ; " Svstematic The- ology in its Relation to Modern^Thought " (1876) ; and prepared a course of "Vedder Lectures," which were to have been delivered in 1879.

INGLIS, James, clergvman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1777; d. in Baltimore, Md., 15 Aug., 1820. His father of the same name came to this country from Scotland about 1760. The family removed to New York about 1780, and James was graduated at Columbia in 1795, studied law with Alexander Hamilton, and practised at the New York bar. He then studied theology in New York, and was