John Kells Ingram
| John Kells Ingram | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 July 1823 Templecarne (Aghnahoo), County Donegal, Ireland |
| Died | 1 May 1907 (aged 83) Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | economist, poet, polyhistor |
John Kells Ingram (7 July 1823 – 1 May 1907) was an economist and poet.
Ingram was born on 7 July 1823, at the Rectory of Templecarne (Aghnahoo), just south of Pettigo, a village in south-east County Donegal, Ireland into an Ulster Scots family.
Although his ancestry was Scottish Presbyterian, Ingram's grandparents had converted to Anglicanism. His grandfather Captain John Ingram ran a linen mill and had a business as a linen bleacher in Glennane (Lisdrumhure). He was active in the Volunteer Movement and financed in 1782 a volunteer corps in the County Armagh, known as Lisdrumhure Volunteers or Mountnorris Volunteers.
Ingram's father, Rev. William Ingram, a scholar at Trinity College Dublin, rector of the Church of Ireland and curate of Templecarne Parish (Diocese of Clogher), married Elizabeth Cooke in 1817.
Ingram's father died in 1829 and his mother then moved with the family to Newry, to guarantee the best possible education for her five children. Ingram first went to Mr. Lyons' School in Newry from 1829 to 1837.
In 1840, at the age of sixteen, Ingram published sonnets in the Dublin University Magazine.
On 13 October 1837, he matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD). He had a distinguished career there, spanning over fifty-five years, as a student, fellow and professor, successively of Oratory, English Literature, Jurisprudence and Greek, LL.D, FTCD), subsequently becoming the College Librarian and ultimately its Vice Provost.
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