The Ingram Baronetcy, of Swineshead Abbey in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 August 1893 for William Ingram

Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet

Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet was Managing Director of The Illustrated London News and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1878 and 1895....

. He was Managing Director of The Illustrated London News and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Boston

Boston (UK Parliament constituency)

Boston was a parliamentary borough in Lincolnshire, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1547 until 1885, and then one member from 1885 until 1918, when the constituency was abolished.-History:...

. Ingram was the son of Herbert Ingram

Herbert Ingram

Herbert Ingram was considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of The Illustrated London News. He was a Liberal politician who favoured social reform and represented Boston for four years until his early death in a shipping accident.-Early life:Ingram was born at Paddock...

, the founder of The Illustrated London News, who also represented Boston in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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Sir Bruce Ingram, younger son of the first Baronet, was also a noted journalist and newspaper editor and served as editor of The Illustrated London News for 63 years.

Ingram Baronets, of Swineshead Abbey (1893)

• Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet
  Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet was Managing Director of The Illustrated London News and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1878 and 1895....
  
  (1847-1924)
• Sir Herbert Ingram, 2nd Baronet (1875-1958)
• Sir Herbert Ingram, 3rd Baronet (1912-1980)
• Sir James Herbert Charles Ingram, 4th Baronet (b. 1966)

External links

• History of The London Illustrated News