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1842. It was in the year following that the poem entitled, "The 

 Memory of the Dead," by which Ingram's name is most widely 

 known, was published in the Nation newspaper. Two years later he 

 presented himself at the Fellowship Examination, obtaining the 

 Madden Premium. In 1846 he was elected Fellow of Trinity 

 College. The long and honourable record of his subsequent academic 

 distinctions is to be found in the Dublin University Calendar for 1906 

 (vol iii., p. 506), and need not be recited here. These honours 

 culminated in the Vice-Provostship, to which he succeeded in 1898. 

 But it is a fact not generally known that many years earlier Ingram 

 all but attained to the dignity of Provost. Only his closest friends 

 were aware how narrowly he missed nomination to the highest position 

 in the College, when, in 1881, Mr. Gladstone was called upon to 

 recommend to the Crown a successor to Provost Humphrey Lloyd. 



Very shortly after gaining his Fellowship, on January 11th, 1847, 

 Ingram was elected a member of this Academy. His long and 

 intimate association with this institution thus extended over a period 

 of above sixty years. For no fewer than forty-three of these he was 

 continuously a member of our governing body — a record for which 

 there is no parallel in the past, and which is little likely to be 

 equalled in the future. He signalized his election by two papers on 

 " Certain Properties of Curves and Surfaces of the Second Degree," 

 and at this period made more than one contribution on geometrical 

 subjects to the Transactions of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 

 of which he was one of the founders.'^' This branch of knowledge 

 had always a great attraction for Ingram ; and of it he observed late 

 in life that no study had ever given him greater intellectual pleasure. 

 But though his earliest work here was scientific, it was as a member 

 of the Committee of Polite Literature that he was, in 1856, first 

 elected to the Council of the Academy. To complete the formal record 

 of his career within these walls, it may here be stated that in 1860 

 he became Secretary of the Council — an office which he filled till 

 1878, receiving on his resignation of its duties an expression of the 

 Academy's "high sense of his distinguished and constant services, 

 and their sincere regret at his retirement " ; that he was on several 

 occasions nominated a Vice-President, serving in all twelve years in 



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