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 generally reinforced by some conspicuous figure from the common law bar. His elevation to the bench was confidently predicted; but promotion never came, and in August 1903, in the full enjoyment of a highly lucrative practice, he accepted the post of commissioner in lunacy. He was then suffering from a painful malady, of which he died just a twelvemonth later.

After two unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament in the liberal interest—for Cirencester in 1868 and Dover in 1874—he was returned for Rye in April 1880, but was defeated at the general election in December 1885, when he stood for the Rye division of the county of Sussex.

His interests were closely bound up with the Cinque Ports, and he twice (1892-3) served as mayor of Winchelsea, near which he had a residence. Inderwick was a prolific writer on historical and antiquarian subjects, and his work on the records of the Inner Temple holds high rank in legal and topographical literature. He was elected F.S.A. in 1894. He died at Edinburgh on 18 August 1904, and was buried at Winchelsea. He married on 4 Aug. 1857 Frances Maria, daughter of John Wilkinson of the exchequer and audit department. A fine bust of Inderwick by Sir George Frampton, R.A., stands in one of the corridors of the Royal Courts of Justice outside the bar library, In the formation and management of which he displayed much judgment and activity. A cartoon by 'Spy' appeared in 'Vanity Fair' (1896).

Besides early legal works, 'The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Acts' (1862), 'The Law of Wills' ( 1866), and his 'Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, 1505-1714,' vols. 1-3 (1896-1901), he published, amongst other works:
 * 1) 'Side-lights on the Stuarts,' 1888.
 * 2) 'The Interregnum, 1648-1660,' 1891.
 * 3) 'The Story of King Edward and New Winchelsea,' 1892.
 * 4) 'The King's Peace,' an historical sketch of the English Law Courts, 1895.



INGRAM, JOHN KELLS (1823–1907), scholar, economist, and poet, born at the rectory of Temple Came, co. Donegal, on 7 July 1823, was eldest son of William Ingram, then curate of the parish, by his wife, Elizabeth Cooke. [q. v. Suppl. II] was his younger brother. The family was descended from Scottish Presbyterians, who settled in co. Down in the seventeenth century. John Ingram, the paternal grandfather, was a prosperous linen-bleacher at Liadrumhure (now Glenanne), co. Armagh; he conformed to the Established Church of Ireland and raised at his own expense in 1782 the Lisdrumhure volunteers. Ingram's father, who was elected in 1790 a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, died in 1829, and his five children were brought up by his widow, who survived till 22 Feb. 1884. Mother and children removed to Newry, and John and his brothers were educated at Dr. Lyons' school there. At the early age of fourteen (13 Oct. 1837) John matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, winning a sizarship next year, a scholarship in 1840, and a senior moderatorship in 1842. He graduated B.A. early in 1843.

In his undergraduate days Ingram showed precocious promise alike as a mathematician and as a classical scholar. In December 1842 he helped to found the Dublin Philosophical Society, acting as its first secretary, and contributing to its early 'Transactions' eleven abstruse papers in geometry. He always said that the highest intellectual delight which he experienced in life was in pure geometry, and his geometrical papers won the praise of his teacher, [q. v.], the eminent mathematical professor of Trinity. But from youth upwards Ingram showed that intellectual versatility which made him well-nigh the most perfectly educated man of his age. After contributing verse and prose in boyhood to Newry newspapers, he published two well-turned sonnets in the 'Dublin University Magazine' for Feb. 1840, and three years later sprang into unlooked-for fame as a popular poet. On a sudden impulse he composed one evening in Trinity in March 1843 the poem entitled 'The Memory of the Dead,' beginning 'Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight?' It was printed in the 'Nation' newspaper on 1 April anonymously, but Ingram's responsibility was at once an open secret. Though his view of Irish politics quickly underwent modification, the verses became and have remained the anthem of Irish nationalism. They were reprinted in 'The Spirit of the Nation' in 1843 (with music in 1845); and were translated into admirable Latin alcaics by Professor R. Y. Tyrell in 'Kottabos' (1870), and thrice subsequently into Irish. Ingram did not publicly claim the authorship till 1900, when he reprinted the poem in his collected verse.

In 1844 Ingram failed in competition for a fellowship at Trinity College, but was