INGRAM, Charles (1727-78), of Temple Newsam, Yorks.

Before Charles Ingram was returned as a minor on his family’s interest, his uncle, Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount Irwin, had applied on his behalf to Newcastle for a commission in the Guards.10 Apr. 1746, 25 May 1747, Add. 32707, ff. 45, 251. Dropping this scheme because Charles ‘was the only son in the family’,19 Jan. 1748, Add. 32714, f. 71. he next applied unsuccessfully for an equerryship to the King.29 Jan. 1747, Add. 32710, f. 289; 11 June 1747, Add. 32711, f. 256. In 1751 he was too late with an application for Charles to be given a post in the new Prince of Wales’s household,HMC Var. viii. 174. but obtained a promise from the King to ‘provide for him upon a proper occasion’. He was most indignant when Charles was passed over for a vacant post of groom of the bedchamber to the Prince in 1752 in favour of a connexion of Pelham’s,14 Jan. 1753, Newcastle (Clumber) mss. but achieved his object in 1756. Two years later Charles married a great heiress, by whom he became the father of George IV’s mistress, Lady Hertford. He died 19 June 1778.