- Robert Ingham
Robert Ingham (1793 – 21 October 1875) was a British barrister and politician.
The fourth son of the surgeon William Ingham and his wife Jane Walker, of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Ingham was educated atHarrow School andOriel College, Oxford . He graduated with a B.A. in 1815 and an M.A. in 1818, and held a fellowship at Oriel from 1816 until 1826.Ingham took to the law and was admitted to
Lincoln's Inn on 16 June 1820, moving to theInner Temple in 1825. He was returned asMember of Parliament (MP) for South Shields in the election of 1832, as a Whig and continued to represent it until he was defeated byJohn Twizell Wawn in the election of 1841. He was also appointed recorder ofBerwick-upon-Tweed in June 1832.In 1846, he was appointed Attorney-General of Durham. In 1850, he became a bencher of the Inner Temple. When Wawn retired in 1852, Ingham beat Henry Liddell in the 1852 election to regain his seat. Ingham resigned his attorney-generalship in 1861, and served as reader of the Inner Temple in 1862 and treasurer in 1863. He stood down at the 1868 election, and resigned the recordership of Berwick in 1870. He died in
Westoe five years later.External links
*cite web | url=http://www.ndfhs.org.uk/Reports/st_2004_05.html | title=Robert Ingham and Friends | publisher=Northumberland and Durham Family History Society | accessdate=2008-09-25
References
*cite book | title=Modern English Biography v. 2 | first=Frederic | last=Boase | publisher=Netherton & Worth | year=1897 | pages=13–14 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_IVmAAAAMAAJ | accessdate=2008-09-25
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