Ingram, Robert

Ingram, Robert an English divine, was born at Beverley, in Yorkshire, March 9, 1726-7. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, and took his degrees in arts. His first preferment was to the perpetual curacy of Bridhurst, in Kent, next the living of Orston, in Nottinghamshire, and afterwards the vicarages of Wormington and Boxted, in Essex. He died in 1804. Mr. Ingram wrote A View of the Great Events of the Seventh Plague, or Period when the Mystery of God shall be finished: Accounts of the Ten Tribes of Israel being in America; originally published by Manasseh ben-Israel: — A Complete and Uniform Explanation of the Prophecy of the Seven Vials of Wrath. See Hook, Eccles. Biography; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, 25, 871. (J. N. P.)