Sir Arthur Ingram | |
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 Sir Arthur Ingram by George Geldorp | |
| Born | c. 1565 |
| Died | 1642 York |
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| Children | 6 sons, 1 daughter |
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| Member of Parliament for York | |
| In office 1624–1629 | |
Sir Arthur Ingram (c. 1565 – 1642) was an English investor, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1610 and 1642.[1][2] The subject of an influential biography,[3] he has been celebrated for his "financial skill and ruthless self-interest",[4] and characterized as "a rapacious, plausible swindler who ruined many during a long and successful criminal career".[5] Probably of London birth but of Yorkshire background, he was a very extensive landowner in Yorkshire. He acquired and rebuilt the former Lennox residence at Temple Newsam near Leeds, which became the principal seat of his family, including the Lords Ingram, Viscount Irvine and their descendants, for over 300 years.[6]
- ^ G. Goodwin, 'Ingram, Sir Arthur (d. 1542), courtier', Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), Vol. 29.
- ^ S. Healy, 'Ingram, Sir Arthur (b. before 1571, d. 1642), financier and politician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ A.F. Upton, Sir Arthur Ingram, c. 1565–1642: a study of the origins of an English landed family (Oxford University Press 1961).
- ^ J.T. Cliffe, The Yorkshire Gentry from the Reformation to the Civil War (Athlone Press, London 1969), p. 30.
- ^ C. Singer, The earliest Chemical Industry: an Essay in the Historical Relations of Economics & Technology Illustrated from the Alum Trade (Folio Society, London 1948), p. 187.
- ^ H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), pp. 9-20.