3-077-803 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Sir James Ingham, Chief Magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. A. Bassano. 'Sir James Taylor Ingham, died on March 5, at his residence, 40, Gloucester-square...He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1832, and in the same year was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. In 1849 he was appointed one of the magistrates of the Thames Police-Court, and passed thence to the Hammersmith and Wandsworth Police-Courts, but in July 1876 was knighted and promoted to the chair at Bow-street...which Sir James held nearly fourteen years, although more than a septuagenarian when he succeeded to it. Sir James Ingham officiated in the capacity of a police magistrate, more than forty years, and was in many respects admirably qualified for the difficult duties of the post which he held so long. He married, in 1835, Gertrude, the daughter of Mr. James Penrose, by which lady he had, with other issue, a son, Mr. James Penrose Ingham, who was born in 1838, and died in 1879, having been educated, like his father, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and married, in 1867, to Lady Caroline Stanhope, eldest daughter of the seventh Earl of Harrington'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.