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INGRAM, Arthur (c.1565-1642), of Fenchurch Street, London; later of Dean’s Yard, Westminster, Temple Newsam and York, Yorks.

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Family and Education

b. c. 1565, 2nd s. of Hugh Ingram (d.1614), Tallowchandler of London and Anne, da. of Richard Goldthorpe†, haberdasher of York.Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 262; PROB 11/123, f. 173. educ. factor (Italy, Turkey). CJ, i. 596a. m. (1) Susan, da. of Richard Browne, Fishmonger of Bread Street, London, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.; G.E. Cokayne, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, 296; PROB 11/74, f. 274. (2) Sept. 1613 (with £3,000), Alice (d. 3 Oct. 1614), da. of William Ferrers, Mercer of London and Bromley, Mdx., wid. of John Halliday, merchant, of London, 1s.; G.E. Cokayne, Ld. Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 27; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 476. (3) 1615, Mary, da. and coh. of Sir Edward Greville* of Milcote, Warws., 1s. d.v.p. A.F. Upton, Sir Arthur Ingram, 71-2; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 29. Kntd. 9 July 1613. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 153. d. 24 Aug. 1642. Upton, 258. sig. Ar[thur] Ingram.

Offices Held

Waiter, port of London by 1601; HMC Hatfield, xi. 210. sec. and kpr. of signet, Council in the North 1613 – 33, member 1613 – 25, 1626–41; R. Reid, Council in the North, 489, 497. kpr., Sheriff Hutton park, Yorks. 1615–27; Upton, 151. commr. new bldgs., London 1615; Ibid. 67. j.p. Yorks. 1617 – d., Warws. 1618–22; C231/4, ff. 31, 68. commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1617–d.; C181/2 f. 67. sheriff, Yorks. 1619–20; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 163. freeman, York 1624; York City Archives, House Bk. 34, f. 270. commr. recusants, Northern counties 1627 – 41, sewers, Derwent valley, Yorks. 1629, R. Trent, Lincs., Notts. and Yorks. 1634, repair of St. Paul’s cathedral, Yorks. (E. Riding) 1633, array Yorks. 1642–d. APC, 1627, p. 313; T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 3, p. 47; C181/4, ff. 1, 174; HUL, DDHA/18/35; Northants. RO, FH133.

Comptroller of customs 1603–13; E351/614; Upton, 2; AO15/2, p. 151. manager, wine licences 1605–14; W. Yorks. AS (Leeds), WYL100/PO6/III/1. collector of dyewood and starch duties 1607–8; CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 370, 421; E214/157. contractor for Crown lands 1607–15; Upton, 23–7. manager of alum works, Yorks. and Dorset 1612 – 15, farmer 1615–25; R.B. Turton, Alum Farm, 83–153. farmer of customs [I] 1613–15. CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 195; E122/235/11.

Merchant Adventurer; cttee. Virg. Co. 1610. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 321.

Cofferer, king’s Household Feb.-July 1615; Chamberlain Letters, i. 584–5; Upton, 70–6. commr. trade 1621 – 22, dyewoods 1635, exacted fees 1635–40; APC, 1621–3, p. 208; Rymer, ix. pt. 1, p. 125; G.E. Aylmer, ‘Charles I’s comm. on Fees’, BIHR, xxxi. 61. treas., payment of Scots army 1641. SR, v. 123.