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Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine


Colonel Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine (6 January 1688 – 10 April 1721), was an English peer.

Rich Ingram was the second son of Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine, by Isabella Machell, daughter of John Machell, Member of Parliament for Horsham, of Hills, Sussex and Helena Warmestry. He schooled at Eton College and was admitted Fellow-Commoner at Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 14 in 1703, where his elder brother the 4th Viscount had studied with the Master, John Covel. He was admitted a student at the University of Leyden in September 1704.

He succeeded in the viscountcy in 1714, after his elder brother Edward died from smallpox. This was a Scottish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire the same year, a post he held until 1721. He was also Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull between 1715 and 1721 and a colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot between 1715 and 1717 and of the 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards between 1717 and 1721. In 1720 he was appointed Governor of Barbados but died of smallpox before taking up the post.


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