APPENDIX. 

 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 



OF 



JOHN KELLS INGRAM and EGBERT ATKINSGN. 



Reprinted from the Eeport of the Council for the year 1907-1908. 



John" Kells Ingkaji was born on July 7th, 1823, at the Eectory 

 of Templecarne, County Donegal, a parish of which his father was 

 then curate, and came of a family of Scottish Presbyterians, settled 

 since the seventeenth century in the County Down. His grandfather, 

 John Ingram, who established a considerable business as a linen- 

 bleacher at Lisdrumhure, now Glenanne, County Armagh, conformed 

 to the Established Church ; and it is interesting to note that the 

 grandfather of the author of "Who Fears to Speak of '98?" was 

 active in the Volunteer Movement of 1782, raising at his own expense 

 the corps known as the Lisdrumhure Yolunteers. Eev. "William 

 Ingram, who married in 1817 Elizabeth Cooke, died in 1829, leaving 

 a family of five children to the care of his widow. The latter, in 

 deference to the desire of her husband that their children should 

 receive the best possible education, removed to Newry ; and it was 

 from Dr. Lyons' s school in that town that Ingram entered Trinity 

 College, Dublin, of which his father had been a Scholar. He 

 matriculated on October 13th, 1837, at the early age of thu-teen, 

 obtaining first place at Entrance, and gained a Sizarship in the 

 following year — distinctions which were followed in due order by a 

 Scholarship in 1840, and a Senior Moderatorship in Mathematics in 



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