The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter

Robert Ingham (1793 – 21 October 1875) was a British barrister and politician. The fourth son of the surgeon William Ingham and his wife Jane Walker, of

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, Ingham was educated at

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. He matriculated at

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in 1811. He graduated with a B.A. in 1815 and an M.A. in 1818, and held a fellowship at Oriel from 1816 until 1826. Ingham took to the law and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 16 June 1820, moving to the

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in 1825. He was returned as

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(MP) for

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in the election of 1832, initially as a

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. One of his strongest supporters in Shields was local heroine

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. He continued to represent South Shields until he was defeated by

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in the election of 1841. He was also appointed recorder of

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in June 1832. In 1846, he was appointed Attorney-General of Durham. In 1850, he became a bencher of the Inner Temple. When Wawn retired in 1852, Ingham beat

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in the 1852 election to regain his seat, this time as a Whig. Ingham resigned his attorney-generalship in 1861, and served as reader of the Inner Temple in 1862 and treasurer in 1863. He stood down at the 1868 election, and resigned the recordership of Berwick in 1870. He died in Westoe five years later.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingham, Robert 1793 births 1875 deaths Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 19th-century English judges Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Inner Temple Tory MPs (pre-1834) UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies People educated at Harrow School