Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q

I’ANSON, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward I’Anson 1775–1853, surveyor and architect). b. St. Laurence, Pountney hill, London 25 July 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’; exhibited 18 designs at R.A. 1830–80; architect in city of London 1837 to death; surveyor for St. Bartholomew’s hospital 18 Dec. 1871; designed British and Foreign Bible Society’s buildings, Queen Victoria st. 1866, Merchant Taylors’ school at the Charterhouse opened 1875, and greater part of the fine buildings in the City built exclusively for offices; restored Dutch church in Austin Friars and that of St. Mary, Abchurch; F.R.I.B.A. 1840, pres. 1886 to death, wrote many papers for its Transactions; author of Detached essays and illustrations, Architectural Publication soc. 1853. d. 28 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 30 Jany. 1888. bur. at Headley in Hampshire. Builder, xxix 189, 1006 (1871), portrait.

I’ANSON, WILLIAM, b. Middleham, Yorkshire 1810; horse trainer; trainer to A. Johnstone at Malton 1849; trained Blink Bonny winner of the Derby 1857, Caller Ou winner of the St. Leger 1861 and Blair Athol winner of the Derby and St. Leger 1864; had a yearly sale of horses on Friday after the St. Leger; owner of numerous race horses; golf player; captain of Malton curling club; his Blink Bonny stud farm was very well known. d. Hungerford house, Norton, Malton 10 Jany. 1881. Illust. sp. and dram. news, xiv 453, 466 (1881), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 15 Jany. 1881 pp. 6, 7.

IBBETSON, LEVETT LANDEN BOSCAWEN. Captain; gave his valuable collections of fossils and cretaceous mollusca to Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1853–61; F.G.S.; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; knight of the orders of the Red Eagle and Hohenzollern of Prussia; resided at Biebrich for several years; author of Notes on the geology and chemical composition of the various strata in the Isle of Wight 1849. d. Biebrich, Prussia 8 Sep. 1869. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxvi p. xli (1870).

IBBOTSON, HENRY, b. about 1816; schoolmaster at Mowthorpe near Castle Howard, at Dunnington and at Grimthorpe near Whitwell all in Yorkshire; distributed sets of the rarer plants of the northern counties; contributed to Baines’s Flora of Yorkshire 1840 and to Baker’s North Yorkshire 1863; author of A catalogue of the Phœnogamous plants of Great Britain 1848; The ferns of York 1884. d. in great poverty at York 12 Feb. 1886.

IBRAHIM, MIRZA MUHAMMAD. b. Persia; a great English scholar; assistant professor in the Oriental department at Haileybury college near Amwell, Herts., professor of Arabic and Persian there 1829–44; retired on a pension from H.E.I. Co.; translated Isaiah into Persian, London 1834 but the title page is in Arabic; wrote A grammar of the Persian language, London 1841, and other books published in Leipzig; tutor to the heir of the Shah of Persia. d. Teheran, Persia, July 1857.

ICELY, THOMAS. b. Plymouth, Nov. 1797; went to New South Wales 1819; a merchant and shipper Sydney; member of legislative council 1842–56; a member of the upper house 1864 to death. d. Elizabeth farm, Paramatta 13 Feb. 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 99.

IDDESLEIGH, SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1850). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; ed. at Eton 1831–6 and at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1847; legal sec. to board of trade 1847; sec. to comrs. of Great exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 Nov. 1851; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, G.C.B. 20 April 1880; M.P. Dudley 1855–7, M.P. Stamford 1858–66, M.P. North Devon 1866–85; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; governor of Hudson Bay co. 5 Jany. 1869; chancellor of the exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880; elected lord rector of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884; cr. earl of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co. Devon 3 July 1885; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to 6 Feb. 1886; author of A short review of the history of the navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849; A statement connected with the elections of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford 1847, 1852 and 1853; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862; reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch. Roxburgh Club 1887. d. in Lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. Lang’s Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. Northcote, new ed. (1891), 2 portraits; D. Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 24–28; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, i 98 (1882), portrait; W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 19, 21–3, portrait.

NOTE.--He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Three Clerks under the name of Sir Warwick West End.

IDDISON, ROGER. b. Bedale, Yorkshire 15 Sep. 1834; a butcher; kept a shop for sale of cricket articles at Manchester 1864; one of the first team of English cricketers who played 15 matches in Australia 1 Jany. to 22 March 1862; played his first match at Lords 9–11 June 1862; played in 27 first-rate matches and made 1059 runs 1867; founded with George Freeman the United North of England Eleven 1869; professional at Harrow school 1871–2; joint sec. with C. D. Barstow of Yorkshire United Eleven 1874; a first-rate batsman, a good fieldsman at point and a good lob-bowler; a commission agent at York 1870 to death. d. 20 Blake st. York 19 March 1890. Illust. sporting news, iii 441 (1864), portrait.

IDLE, CHRISTOPHER. b. Kent 1799 or 1800; lived in France some years, then in Argyleshire; joint editor with J. H. Walsh of The Field 1858–9; contributed to the Review and Land and Water; a salmon fisher; a whist player and member of Graham’s and the Portland clubs; a member of the Reform where he was one of the best ecarté players 1856 to death; edited The rural almanack 1855; author of Hints on shooting and fishing 1855, 2 ed. 1865. d. 11 Norris st. Haymarket, London 28 May 1871. Westminster papers July 1871 p. 44; Field 3 June 1871 p. 447.

IGGULDEN, JOHN. b. Deal 1 June 1777; notary and proctor Doctors’ commons, London; one of the 3 deputy registrars of prerogative court of Canterbury, Doctors’ commons 1829 to death. d. 8 Russell sq. London 18 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery.

IKIN, JOHN ARTHUR. b. 1810; solicitor at Leeds 1832 to death; town clerk of Leeds 19 July 1843 to death. d. Scarcroft grange near Leeds 4 Sep. 1860. Leeds Intelligencer 8 Sep. 1860 p. 5.

ILBERY, JOSIAH JAMES. b. London 16 Sep. 1769; superintendent Liverpool and Manchester railway 1826, superannuated in 1855 when 86 years old being one of the oldest and most indefatigable railway officers in the world. d. Douglas, Isle of Man 11 April 1869 when almost a centenarian. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 485–6 (1869).

ILCHESTER, HENRY STEPHEN FOX STRANGWAYS, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Ilchester 1747–1802). b. 21 Feb. 1787; styled lord Stavordale 1787–1802; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father 5 Sep. 1802; capt. Dorsetshire regt. of yeomanry 15 April 1808, lieut.-col. commandant 12 Feb. 1846; lord lieut. of Somerset 19 April 1837 to May 1839; capt. of the yeomen of the guard 12 July 1837 to 5 July 1841; P.C. 12 July 1837. d. Melbury house near Dorchester 3 Jany. 1858.

ILCHESTER, WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER FOX STRANGWAYS, 4 Earl of (half brother of the preceding). b. 7 May 1795; styled hon. William Fox-Strangways 1795–1858; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; attaché at St. Petersburg 1816, at Constantinople 1820, at Naples 1822 and at the Hague 1824; sec. of legation at Florence 1825, at Naples 1828, at Turin 1832 and at Vienna 1832; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1835–40; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Frankfort 17 March 1840 to Jany. 1849; succeeded as 3 earl 3 Jany. 1858; F.R.S. 8 March 1821. d. Melbury house near Dorchester 10 Jany. 1865.

ILES, VEN. JOHN HODGSON (eld. son of John Iles of Healing, Lincolnshire). b. 22 Sep. 1828; ed. at Rugby and Lincoln coll. Oxf., fellow 1855–61; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; assist. master Bromsgrove gr. sch. 1852–7; R. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1860–76; V. of Barton-under-Needwood 1876–80; V. of Ch. Ch. Lichfield 1880–3; preb. of Lichfield 1870–7; archdeacon of Stafford 1876 to death; canon of Lichfield 1877 to death. d. 13 Nov. 1888. bur. Lichfield 17 Nov.

ILIFF, REV. FREDERICK (younger son of Wm. Tiffin Iliff 1772–1830). b. Nottingham 12 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ hospital; entered Trin. coll. Cam. as a sizar 6 Jany. 1819, scholar 19 April 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1838; head master of royal institution school, Liverpool; master of Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–62; P.C. of Gateworth near Selby 1862, resigned 1868; edited the Biblia ecclesiæ polyglotta: the proper lessons for Sundays in Hebrew etc. 1843; author of Week days prayers for the use of boarding schools 1855; A plea for a revisal of the Bible translation of 1611. Sunderland 1856; The Old is better: materials for new forms of Common Prayer from parts of the Prayer book not used in Sunday services 1872. d. Sunderland 9 March 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 350 (1869).

ILIFF, REV. GEORGE (2 son of the preceding). Ordained deacon 1855, priest 1857; second master at Grange sch. Bishop Wearmouth 1856–61; head master of Hall school, Sunderland (opened by him) July 1861 to death; author of Chronology in verse without numbers 1855, anon.; An English education, what it means and how it may be carried out 1858, 3 ed. 1861. d. 15 Murton st. Sunderland 6 Sep. 1878.

ILLIDGE, THOMAS HENRY. b. Birmingham 26 Sep. 1799; ed. at Manchester; painted portraits of many celebrities of Lancashire; exhibited at Liverpool academy from 1827; portrait painter in London 1842 to death; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1826–51. d. of fever at 33 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 13 May 1851.

ILSLEY, REV. JOSEPH MARY. b. Maple Durham, Oxfordshire 20 Dec. 1805; ed. at English coll. Lisbon, professor there, president 1854–63; D.D. by papal decree 20 June 1854; missioner at Scorton, Lancs. 1863 to death; received order of the Immaculada Conceicao; wrote ten sermons in The Catholic Pulpit vols. i–ii 1839–40. d. Scorton 31 Aug. 1868. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 530–2 (1887).

IMAGE, REV. THOMAS (son of rev. John Image, V. of Peterborough, d. 1786). b. 1772; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798; R. of Whepstead, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1798 to death; R. of Stanningfield, Suffolk 20 March 1809 to death; formed from counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk, nearly the finest collection of fossils in England, which he sold to Univ. of Cambridge for Woodwardian museum 1856; F.G.S. 1840. d. Whepstead rectory 8 March 1856. G.M. xlv 386, 534, 554 (1856).

IMHOFF, SIR CHARLES (son of baron Charles Von Imhoff a German). b. England 1766; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. 1785–6; commanded a company in one of regiments of Prince of Waldeck 1787–93; served in Berkshire militia 1793–8; captain 1 light dragoons 1799; major 4 foot 1801, lieut. col. 5 Feb. 1802; lieut. col. 4 garrison battalion 17 Sep. 1807 to June 1812; inspecting field officer of Guernsey militia 1812; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. Daylesford house, Chipping Norton, Worcs. 14 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 543–4 (1853), xl 390.