Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine

Colonel Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine (6 January 1688 – 10 April 1721), was an English peer.

Biography
Rich Ingram was the second son of Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine, by Isabella Machell, daughter of John Machell, Member of Parliament for Horsham, of Hills, Sussex and Helena Warmestry. He schooled at Eton College and was admitted Fellow-Commoner at Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 14 in 1703, where his elder brother the 4th Viscount had studied with the Master, John Covel. He was admitted a student at the University of Leyden in September 1704.

Under the terms of his grandfather Machell's will, Rich inherited the property of Hills, with 190 acres, at Horsham, together with a burgage at Horsham, several properties in London and in other parts of England, at his age of 21 years: the will having been proved in 1704 by the executors, Rich was sworn to probate, aged 22, as Rich Ingram alias Machell on 10 March 1711/12. He succeeded in the viscountcy in 1714, after his elder brother Edward died from smallpox. This was a Scottish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire the same year, a post he held until 1721. He was also Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull between 1715 and 1721 and a colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot between 1715 and 1717 and of the 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards between 1717 and 1721. In 1720 he was appointed Governor of Barbados but died of smallpox before taking up the post.

Lord Ingram married Lady Anne Howard, daughter of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, in 1717. Their portrait was painted by Jonathan Richardson (the elder, 1667-1745). There were no children from the marriage. He died from smallpox in April 1721, aged 33, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Arthur, to whom the Horsham estate also passed by entail in default of male issue from Rich. The Viscountess of Irvine married as her second husband William Douglas in 1737. She died in December 1764.

He is buried in Westminster Abbey.