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Author: INGRAM, George

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INGRAM, George (1798-1850: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 18 Sept. 1798 and baptised on 11 June 1799 at Chaldon Herring, Dorset, the eldest son of William Ingram and his wife Ann Soper, who had married in 1795. He was educated at Queens’ College Cambridge (matric. 1829, BD 1839) and ordained priest in 1833 (as “MA Queens”). He was Curate of the Wool Chapel, Coombe Keynes, Bristol (1832-4) and Curate (1834-9) then Rector (1839-50) of Chedburgh, Suffolk. He married Charlotte Burnard Pitman on 20 Dec. 1827 at St. James, Clerkenwell, London. They had a son and a daughter. Charlotte Ingram died on 8 Apr. 1831, probably due to childbirth complications following the birth of her daughter  Charlotte on 25 Mar. He married Jane Kaines Clavell on 10 Sept. 1833 at Wareham, Dorset. They had a daughter and three sons, two of whom were also educated at Cambridge and entered the church. He died on 6 June 1850 at Louvain, Belgium, where he may have been temporary or replacement chaplain. In addition to The Pleasures of Home (1825), he published theological works which are now forgotten: The True Character of the Church of England (1838) and The Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation (1840). (ancestry.co.uk 10 Jun. 2022; Copsey 1: 277; Bristol Mirror 5 Jan. 1828; Dorset County Chronicle 12 Sept. 1833; Bury and Norwich Post 12 Jun. 1850) AA

 

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