Background
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.
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. 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. However, he died before taking up the post.
Lord Irvine married Lady Anne Howard, daughter of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, in 1717. Their portrait was painted by Jonathan Richardson (the elder, 1667-1745).
There were no children from the marriage.
She died in December 1764.
