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Author: Ingram, Henry

Biography:

INGRAM, Henry (1779-1850: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 28 Sept. 1779 and baptised on 11 Oct. at St. Thomas’s, Liverpool, one of at least eleven children of Francis Ingram (1739-1815) and his wife Christian Hughes (1739-1816), who had married in 1763. His father chartered at least 108 slave ships, amassed a fortune, and formed the bank of Ingram Kennet and Ingram (1785-1814). The bank failed and many of his assets were sold. Little is known of Henry’s life but he was the manager of the Halifax (Yorkshire) branch of the bank before its collapse. He was also a wool-merchant and was listed in various directories in the 1820s and 1830s. He married Hannah Moore (1786-1865) on 5 Aug. 1806 at Halifax. They went on to have at least seven children. The family lived for many years at Breck, Sowerby, near Halifax. From about 1847 until his death he moved to St. John’s, Wakefield, where he died on 13 Mar. 1850 and where he was buried. His Matilda (1830), Zuleima, a Tale of Persia; Cain; St. Paul at Malta, with Other Poems (1844) were both printed at Halifax by Nathan Whitley, who also printed Thomas Crossley and Frederic Charles Spencer (qq.v.). (ancestryco.uk 10 Jun. 2022; J. Horsfall Turner, Halifax Books and Authors [1906], 137; Newsam 209-10; Gomer Williams, History of the Liverpool Privateers [1897], 18-21, 177-8, 562; Leeds Intelligencer 16 Mar. 1850) AA

 

Books written (2):

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815
London/ Halifax: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/ printed by N. Whitley, 1830