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.
NOTE.--From 18 May 1807 the date of his obtaining a royal licence to
accept insignia of grand commander of St. Joachim, he enjoyed the
titular distinction of a knight, in this country, the regulation to
contrary with respect to foreign orders of knighthood not being issued
until the year 1813. His mother _m._ (2) Warren Hastings and _d._ 29
March 1837 aged 90. On his death the mansion and estate of Daylesford,
the ultimate aim and object of Warren Hastings’ ambition, were sold 30
July 1853 to George Grisewood of the Stock Exchange for £30,250.
IMLACH, JAMES. _b._ Banff, Scotland 8 May 1789; bookseller,
Banff; collected materials for sir Walter Scott for a life of
Macpherson the freebooter, a work never published; author of
History of Banff and account of its inhabitants. Banff 1868.
_d._ Castle Panton, Banff 13 July 1880. _Banffshire Journal 20
July 1880 p._ 5.
IMPEY, JOHN (2 son of sir Elijah Impey 1732–1809, chief justice
of Bengal). _b._ 1772; midshipman R.N. 28 April 1785; captain 22
Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on half pay 4 July 1855.
_d._ Coly villa, Colyford 2 Aug. 1858.
IMRAY, JAMES FREDERICK. _b._ 1829 or 1830; F.R.G.S.; F.S.A.;
author of Pilotage rates of the ports of the United Kingdom
1858; Baltic pilot 1870; The Bay of Bengal pilot 1879; he also
published for the admiralty, Sailing directions for the ports in
the bay of Bengal 1866, and other books of Sailing Directions
for various places 1866–76; with W. Rosser The lights and tides
of the world 1869. _d._ St. Catharine’s, Beckenham, Kent 8 Oct.