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

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.

Parlimentarian

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

Main residences: Fenchurch Street, London; Dean’s Yard, Westminster; Temple Newsam; York, Yorks.

Author

J.P.F.

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

INGRAM, Arthur (c.1565-1642)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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