Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine (19 March 1727 – 27 June 1778), known as Charles Ingram until 1763, was a British landowner, politician and courtier. He succeeded his uncle to the Viscountcy and the Temple Newsam estate in Leeds in 1763. Ingram was the son of Colonel the Honourable

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, seventh son of Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine. His mother was Elizabeth Scarborough, daughter and heiress of Charles Scarborough, of

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. He was returned to Parliament for

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in 1747, a seat he held until 1763, when he succeeded his uncle

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in the viscountcy. This was a

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and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the

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although he was forced to resign his seat in Parliament as Scottish peers were barred from sitting in the House of Commons. He was also a

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to the

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from 1756 to 1760 and 1760 to 1763 (after the Prince had succeeded to the throne as George III). In 1768 he was elected a

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, which he remained until his death ten years later. Lord Irvine married Frances Shepheard, daughter of Samuel Shepheard MP, of

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, in 1758. They had five daughters. The eldest daughter, the Honourable Isabella Ingram, married the 2nd Marquess of Hertford and also became the mistress of the

, later George IV. In the 1760s Charles employed Capability Brown to re-landscape the park at Temple Newsam. The work was continued by his widow, who rebuilt the south wing and lived at Temple Newsam until her death in 1807. There is a portrait of Charles, 9th Viscount Irwin, by Benjamin Wilson, in the collections at

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.Portrait of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount Irwin, by Benjamin Wilson, se
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Lord Irvine died in June 1778, aged 51. As he had no sons and as there were no more male-line descendants of the first Viscount the viscountcy became extinct on his death. Temple Newsam passed to Isabella, Lady Hertford on Lady Irvines's death in 1807.

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