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INNES, _Anne_ (eld. dau. of Charles Innes of Fleet st. and Hatton garden, London). Joint proprietor and editor with her sisters Eliza and Maria Catherine of the peerage known as Sams’s annual peerage 2 vols. 1827 after its publisher Wm. Sams of St. James’ st. London, in 1832 it was published by H. Colburn with the altered title of Lodge’s Peerage, the Norroy king at arms allowing his name to be placed on it to oblige the Misses Innes. The surviving sister edited The Peerage to 1862; it is the only work which gives the births of the female nobility. _d._ High st. Hounslow 24 March 1856. _G.M. i_ 253 (1856).

NOTE.--Eliza Innes _d._ about 1857 and Maria Catherine Innes _d._ 4 Thorne road, South Lambeth, London 13 Dec. 1880 in 85 year. _Times 21 Dec. 1880 p._ 11 _col._ 1. Eliza and Maria C. Innes compiled the Index to Davies Gilbert’s Parochial history of Cornwall (1838) vol. iii. pp. 395–571.

INNES, COSMO NELSON (youngest son of John Innes of Leuchars, Elginshire, writer to the signet). _b._ Durris manor house, Kincardineshire 9 Sep. 1798; ed. at Aberdeen univ. and Glasgow univ. from which he was a Snell exhibitioner to Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; called to Scottish bar 1822; one of advocates depute 1833; sheriff of Elginshire 1840–52; a principal clerk of session 23 Feb. 1852 to death; professor of civil history in univ. of Edin. 19 Nov. 1846 to 1862, professor of history there 1862 to death; member of Bannatyne, Spalding and Maitland clubs and Scottish Burghs’ Record Soc. for which he edited many Cartularies and other works 1832–64, 25 in number; edited with T. Thomson, Acts of the parliaments of Scotland 12 vols. 1814–75 for Commissioners on Public Records; author of Sketches of early Scottish history 1861; Scotland in the middle ages 1860. _d._ Killin near Crieff, Perthshire 31 July 1874. _bur._ Warriston cemet. Edinburgh 5 Aug. _Memoirs of Cosmo Innes_ (1874); _Proc. of R. Soc. of Edin. viii_ 453–60 (1875).

INNES, FREDERICK MAITLAND. _b._ Scotland 1816; went to Australia 1833; member Tasmanian legislative assembly 2 Dec. 1856; colonial treasurer 25 April 1857 to 1 Nov. 1862; colonial secretary 1 Nov. 1862 to 20 Jany. 1863; colonial treasurer and premier 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873; colonial treasurer 13 March 1875 to 20 July 1876; member legislative council 1862, president legislative council 1876. _d._ Hobart Town, May 1882. _Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 156.

INNES, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ 30 May 1811; ensign 61 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 3 July 1855; lieut. col. Bengal Infantry 15 July 1859, col. 10 Nov. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 30 May 1881. _d._ 13 Dunsford place, Bath 5 May 1885.

INNES, REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. James Innes of Yester). _b._ 1775; presbyterian minister Stirling 1793, deposed from his charge 8 Oct. 1799; chaplain Stirling castle 1793; minister at the Tabernacle, Dundee 1800; pastor of a Baptist congregation, Edinburgh; bookseller Edinburgh; D.D. of Washington coll. Pennsylvania 1848; author of Reasons for separating from the church of Scotland. Dundee 1804; Sketches of human nature. Edin. 1807; Liberia, or the history of the American colony of free Negroes 1831, 2 ed. 1833; Suggestions for thoughtful but sceptical minds 1854 and many other books. _d._ Edinburgh 8 March 1855. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _ii part_ 2 _p._ 680 (1869).

INSKIP, JOHN SWANNELL. _b._ Huntingdon 10 Aug. 1816; taken to U.S. of America 1821; a preacher in Methodist Episcopal church 1835; attained distinction as an orator and conductor of camp-meetings; edited The Christian Standard; author of Life of Rev. William Summers a blind man. Baltimore; Methodism explained and defended. Philadelphia 1856. _d._ Ocean Grove, New Jersey 7 March 1884.

INSKIP, REV. ROBERT MILLS. _b._ 1816; naval instructor R.N. 22 Dec. 1836, chaplain 14 June 1853, retired 25 July 1871; C.B. 2 June 1869; author of Navigation and nautical astronomy 1869, new ed. 1871. _d._ 22 Torrington place, Plymouth 17 Dec. 1890.

INSKIPP, JAMES. _b._ 1790; in the commissariat service, retired with a pension; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A., 83 at B.I. and 56 at Suffolk st. 1816–64; his pictures were chiefly small subject-pictures and portraits, some of them were engraved; illustrated Sir Harris Nicolas’s edition of Izaac Walton’s Complete Angler 1833–6; published a series of engravings from his own drawings entitled, Studies of heads from nature 1838. _d._ Godalming, Surrey 15 March 1868.

INVERARITY, JONATHAN DUNCAN. _b._ 1812 or 1813; entered Bombay civil service 1830; comr. in Scinde 1859–62; member of council at Bombay 24 March 1862–65 when he retired on annuity. _d._ Rosemount, Forfarshire 28 April 1882.

INVERNESS, CECILIA LETITIA GORE UNDERWOOD, Duchess of (8 dau. of 2 earl of Arran 1734–1809). _b._ 1788. (_m._ (1) 14 May 1815 sir George Buggin who _d._ Great Cumberland place, London 12 April 1825 aged 65; _m._ (2) 1830 Augustus Frederick 1 duke of Sussex, he was _b._ Buckingham house 27 Jany. 1773, _d._ Kensington palace 21 April 1843); assumed her maternal surname of Underwood by sign manual 2 May 1831; cr. duchess of Inverness 10 April 1840. _d._ Kensington palace, London 1 Aug. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 135 (1873).

IONS, THOMAS (eld. son of James Ions of Gateshead, Durham). _b._ 1817; organist St. Nicholas ch. Newcastle 1835 to death; conductor Sacred harmonic and choral soc. Newcastle 1852 to death; Mus. Bac. (Magdalen hall) Oxf. 10 July 1848, Mus. Doc. 3 Feb. 1854; composer of Clear serene eyes, a canzonet 1845; By the waters of Babylon, an anthem for five voices 1848; Cantica ecclesiastica, a collection of psalm and hymn tunes 1850, 3 ed. 1855, besides songs and other pieces of music. _d._ Westmoreland ter. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Sep. 1857. _Newcastle Chronicle 2 Oct. 1857 p._ 8.

IRELAND, JAMES. _b._ Horsham 10 March 1811; went to Brighton to reside with his uncle the proprietor of tea gardens and cricket ground 1823; a carpenter, a wood merchant and a builder 1844; opened up several new districts in Preston and Hove and built a large number of houses; a founder of Brighton gram. sch. 1859; vice chairman of board of guardians 1868–71; member of school board Nov. 1870, chairman to death; mayor of Brighton 1872–4. _d._ 74 Dyke road, Brighton 20 March 1877. _Sussex Daily News 21 March 1877 p._ 3.

IRELAND, RICHARD DAVIES. _b._ Galway; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin, Nov. 1838; went to Victoria, Australia 1852; admitted to Victorian bar 24 Feb. 1853; defended the Ballarat rioters Dec. 1854; member of legislature from 1857; solicitor general, Victoria 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, 26 Nov. 1860 to 29 July 1861 and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; Q.C. 14 Aug. 1863. _d._ Melbourne 1875. _Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 158.

IREMONGER, WILLIAM. _b._ 31 Aug. 1776; ensign 18 foot 29 Feb. 1792; lieut. col. 2 foot 17 March 1808 to 2 May 1811; K.C. _d._ Wherwell priory near Andover, Hants. 21 Jany. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 521 (1852).

IRONS, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Ware, Herts. 5 Nov. 1785; ordained an independent minister 21 May 1814; minister at Hoddesdon, Herts. 1814–15, at Sawston, Cambridge 1815–18 and at Grove chapel, Camberwell, Surrey 1818 to death; author of Zion’s hymns: a supplement to Dr. Watts’ Psalms and hymns. Saffron Walden 1816, 10 ed. 1846; Jazer: assistance for the weak in faith 1821, 21 ed. 1880; Calvary, a poem, 2 ed. 1834; The true church of God as described in the oracles of God, 3 ed. 1837; Nymphas: an exposition of the Song of Solomon in blank verse 1841; Grove chapel pulpit: Discourses 4 vols. 1848–51 and 14 other books. _d._ Camberwell 3 April 1852. _G. Bayfield’s Memoir of rev. J. Irons_ (1852).

IRONS, REV. WILLIAM JOSIAH (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Hoddesdon, Herts. 12 Sep. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1842, D.D. 1854; C. of St. Mary, Newington Butts, London 1835–37; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1837–38; V. of Barkway, Herts. 1838–40; P.C. of Brompton, London 1840–70; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. Dec. 1860 to death; R. of Waddingham, Lincs. 1870–72; Bampton lecturer 1870; R. of St. Mary Woolnoth with St. Mary Woolchurch, Haw, London 7 June 1872 to death; one of editors of Literary Churchman, in which he wrote leading articles May 1855 to Dec. 1861; author of On the Holy catholic church: lectures, three series 1837–47; Our Blessed Lord regarded in his earthly relationship 1844; Notes of the church 1845, 3 ed. 1846; The miracles of Christ: sermons 1859; Analysis of human responsibility 1869; Occasional sermons 1876. _d._ 20 Gordon sq. London 18 June 1883. _C. Mackeson’s Church congress handbook_ (1877) 98–100; _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) _p._ 46; _Times 20, 21 June 1883_.

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