Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine

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| name = The Viscount of Irvine

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| office = Member of Parliament for Yorkshire

| term_start = 1701

| term_end = 1702

| alongside =

| predecessor = The Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Sir John Kaye

| successor = Sir John Kaye
Marquess of Hartington

| office1 = Member of Parliament for Scarborough

| term_start1 = 1693

| term_end1 = 1701

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| predecessor1 = Francis Thompson
John Hungerford

| successor1 = Sir Charles Hotham
William Thompson

| birth_name = Arthur Ingram

| birth_date = {{birth date|1666|01|25|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{dda|1702|06|21|1666|01|25|df=yes}}

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| residence = Temple Newsam

| parents = Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount of Irvine
Lady Essex Montagu

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| children = 9

| relations = Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (grandfather)

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Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine (25 January 1666 – 21 June 1702) was an English Member of Parliament and peer. He was the Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament for Yorkshire and Scarborough. He was the father or grandfather of all the later Viscounts Irvine.

Early life

The 3rd Viscount Irvine was the younger of two sons of the 1st Viscount, Henry Ingram, of Temple Newsam, and younger brother of the 2nd Viscount, Edward Ingram (c. 1662–1688). Edward inherited the title at the age of 4, on his father's death, and therefore their mother the Viscountess Essex Ingram, née Montagu (daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester), was the more important parental example. Arthur lived a little longer than his father and brother, both of whom died at the age of 26.

Career

Arthur inherited the titles and the benefit of his brother's estate in 1688.Will of the Right Honorable Edward Lord Ingram Viscount Irvine (P.C.C. 1688), Exton quire.

From 1693 to 1701, he served as a Member of Parliament for Scarborough. From 1701 to 1702, he was MP for Yorkshire.

From 1692 to 1702, he served as Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire and from 1699 to 1702, he served as Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Personal life

In October 1685, when he was 19 and she 15 years old, Arthur married Isabella Machell (1670–1764) in London at St Benet Gracechurch, although that church was then being rebuilt (1681–1686).T.N.A. Discovery Catalogue, piece description WYL100/F/4/1 (Marriage certificate: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds). Isabella was the eldest daughter of the former Helena Warmestry,W.H. Challen, 'John Machell, M.P., Horsham', Sussex Notes and Queries XVI (1964), pp. 114-121. and John Machell (1637–1704) of Hills Place, MP for Horsham.B.M. Crook, 'Machell, John (1637-1704), of Hills Place, Horsham, Suss.', in B.D. Henning (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, (Boydell & Brewer 1983), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/machell-john-1637-1704#footnote1_bfain5u History of Parliament online]. The marriage reinforced older Machell connections with the Rich family, from which Viscountess Essex Ingram, Arthur's mother, was also descended. In 1691 Isabella's sister Caecilia Maria married John Parsons at All Hallows-on-the-Wall, and they had a daughter Helena.Challen, 'John Machell, M.P., Horsham', Sussex Notes and Queries (1964). Together, Arthur and Isabella were the parents of nine sons, heirs to the Viscountcy, who were born between 1686 and 1701, including:H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun05paul#page/8/mode/2up pp. 9-20], at pp. 14-16.

Edward Machell Ingram, 4th Viscount of Irvine (1686–1714)
Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine (1688–1721)
Arthur Ingram, 6th Viscount of Irvine (1689–1736)
Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount of Irvine (1691–1761)
Hon. John Ingram (1693–1715)burial in Horsham parish register 26 Feb 1714 (O.S.)
George Ingram, 8th Viscount of Irvine (1694–1763)
Hon. Charles Ingram (1696–1748)
Hon. Thomas Ingram (1698–1698), who died infancy.
Hon. William Ingram (1701–1756)

The 3rd Viscount made his will on 12 June 1702, giving half his estate to Lady Isabella, and £2000 each in trust for his younger sons, but noting that if John Machell settled his estate on the second son, Rich, his portion should be shared among the others. Lady Isabella was to have their guardianship and upbringing.Will of the Right Honourable Arthur Lord Ingram Viscount Irvine (P.C.C. 1706), Eedes quire. He died on 21 June 1702, and was buried at Whitkirk on 8 July 1702.Whitkirk Parish Register 8 July 1702 says "8 July 1702 ye Right honble Arthur Ingram Visct Irwyn was bur in Thorphall Quire" John Machell (who often stayed at Temple Newsam) died in 1704, entailing all of his valuable estate at Horsham in Sussex to descend to his grandchildren, commencing with the second, Rich Ingram (since the eldest was to inherit Temple Newsam). This was (according to his will) on condition that any so inheriting should change their name to Machell, a proviso which was not respected.Will of John Machell of Horsham, Sussex (P.C.C. 1704). Isabella outlived all her sons and died in 1764 at the age of 94.Will of the Right Honourable Isabella Viscountess Irwin, Dowager of Windsor, Berkshire (P.C.C. 1764).

=Legacy=

A portrait reputed to be of Arthur the 3rd Viscount is at Temple Newsam,Portrait of Arthur Ingram (1666-1702), British School, see [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/arthur-ingram-16661702-3rd-viscount-irwin-38822 Art UK, image credit:Leeds Museum and Galleries]. and he also features in a landscape hunting scene by Leonard Knyff.Hunting portrait of Arthur, 3rd Viscount Irwin, by Leonard Knyff, see [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/arthur-3rd-viscount-irwin-16661702-38823 Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries/Bridgeman Images]. A portrait of Isabella (Machell), Viscountess Irwin, by John Closterman, is also at Temple Newsam.Portrait of Isabella, Viscountess Irwin, c. 1685-90, see at [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/isabella-machell-16881721-viscountess-irwin-37788 Art UK, Leeds Museums and Galleries/Bridgeman images]. Isabella's dates are incorrectly given as 1688-1721.