Modern English biography

INMAN, THOMAS (2 son of Charles Inman, director of the bank of Liverpool, who _d._ 1858). _b._ Rutland st. Leicester 27 Jany. 1820; ed. at King’s coll. London; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1842; M.D. Lond. 1844; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon in Liverpool 1842–71; house surgeon Liverpool infirmary; author of Spontaneous combustion. Liverpool 1855; Foundation for a new theory of medicine 1860, 2 ed. 1861; Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names 2 vols. 1868–9, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1872–3; The preservation of health 1870, 3 ed. 1872; Ancient pagan and modern christian symbolism explained 1869, 3 ed. 1880 and other books. _d._ Clifton 3 May 1876. INMAN, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Leicester 6 April 1825; clerk successively to Nathan Cairns and to Cater & Co. merchants, Liverpool; clerk to Richardson Brothers, merchants, Liverpool and a partner Jany. 1849, managed the fleet of American sailing packets and purchased the City of Glasgow and 4 other iron screw ships 1850–6; formed the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia steamship co. better known as the Inman line 1857; established a fortnightly line to New York 1857, a weekly service 1860, three times a fortnight 1863; carried the mail between England and America; launched the City of Berlin 1875 largest steam vessel afloat except the Great Eastern. _d._ Upton manor near Birkenhead 3 July 1881. _bur._ Moreton parish church 6 July. _History of merchant shipping. By W. S. Lindsay_, _iv_ 251–60, 611–2 (1876); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. clxviii_ 177, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iv_ 467 (1880). INNES, _Anne_ (eld. dau. of Charles Innes of Fleet st. and Hatton garden, London). Joint proprietor and editor with her sisters Eliza and Maria Catherine of the peerage known as Sams’s annual peerage 2 vols. 1827 after its publisher Wm. Sams of St. James’ st. London, in 1832 it was published by H. Colburn with the altered title of Lodge’s Peerage, the Norroy king at arms allowing his name to be placed on it to oblige the Misses Innes. The surviving sister edited The Peerage to 1862; it is the only work which gives the births of the female nobility. _d._ High st. Hounslow 24 March 1856. _G.M. i_ 253 (1856). NOTE.--Eliza Innes _d._ about 1857 and Maria Catherine Innes _d._ 4 Thorne road, South Lambeth, London 13 Dec. 1880 in 85 year. _Times 21 Dec. 1880 p._ 11 _col._ 1. Eliza and Maria C. Innes compiled the Index to Davies Gilbert’s Parochial history of Cornwall (1838) vol. iii. pp. 395–571. INNES, COSMO NELSON (youngest son of John Innes of Leuchars, Elginshire, writer to the signet). _b._ Durris manor house, Kincardineshire 9 Sep. 1798; ed. at Aberdeen univ. and Glasgow univ. from which he was a Snell exhibitioner to Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; called to Scottish bar 1822; one of advocates depute 1833; sheriff of Elginshire 1840–52; a principal clerk of session 23 Feb. 1852 to death; professor of civil history in univ. of Edin. 19 Nov. 1846 to 1862, professor of history there 1862 to death; member of Bannatyne, Spalding and Maitland clubs and Scottish Burghs’ Record Soc. for which he edited many Cartularies and other works 1832–64, 25 in number; edited with T. Thomson, Acts of the parliaments of Scotland 12 vols. 1814–75 for Commissioners on Public Records; author of Sketches of early Scottish history 1861; Scotland in the middle ages 1860. _d._ Killin near Crieff, Perthshire 31 July 1874. _bur._ Warriston cemet. Edinburgh 5 Aug. _Memoirs of Cosmo Innes_ (1874); _Proc. of R. Soc. of Edin. viii_ 453–60 (1875). INNES, FREDERICK MAITLAND. _b._ Scotland 1816; went to Australia 1833; member Tasmanian legislative assembly 2 Dec. 1856; colonial treasurer 25 April 1857 to 1 Nov. 1862; colonial secretary 1 Nov. 1862 to 20 Jany. 1863; colonial treasurer and premier 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873; colonial treasurer 13 March 1875 to 20 July 1876; member legislative council 1862, president legislative council 1876. _d._ Hobart Town, May 1882. _Heaton’s Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 100, 156. INNES, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ 30 May 1811; ensign 61 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 3 July 1855; lieut. col. Bengal Infantry 15 July 1859, col. 10 Nov. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 30 May 1881. _d._ 13 Dunsford place, Bath 5 May 1885. INNES, REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. James Innes of Yester). _b._ 1775; presbyterian minister Stirling 1793, deposed from his charge 8 Oct. 1799; chaplain Stirling castle 1793; minister at the Tabernacle, Dundee 1800; pastor of a Baptist congregation, Edinburgh; bookseller Edinburgh; D.D. of Washington coll. Pennsylvania 1848; author of Reasons for separating from the church of Scotland. Dundee 1804; Sketches of human nature. Edin. 1807; Liberia, or the history of the American colony of free Negroes 1831, 2 ed. 1833; Suggestions for thoughtful but sceptical minds 1854 and many other books. _d._ Edinburgh 8 March 1855. _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _ii part_ 2 _p._ 680 (1869). INSKIP, JOHN SWANNELL. _b._ Huntingdon 10 Aug. 1816; taken to U.S. of America 1821; a preacher in Methodist Episcopal church 1835; attained distinction as an orator and conductor of camp-meetings; edited The Christian Standard; author of Life of Rev. William Summers a blind man. Baltimore; Methodism explained and defended. Philadelphia 1856. _d._ Ocean Grove, New Jersey 7 March 1884. INSKIP, REV. ROBERT MILLS. _b._ 1816; naval instructor R.N. 22 Dec. 1836, chaplain 14 June 1853, retired 25 July 1871; C.B. 2 June 1869; author of Navigation and nautical astronomy 1869, new ed. 1871. _d._ 22 Torrington place, Plymouth 17 Dec. 1890. INSKIPP, JAMES. _b._ 1790; in the commissariat service, retired with a pension; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A., 83 at B.I. and 56 at Suffolk st. 1816–64; his pictures were chiefly small subject-pictures and portraits, some of them were engraved; illustrated Sir Harris Nicolas’s edition of Izaac Walton’s Complete Angler 1833–6; published a series of engravings from his own drawings entitled, Studies of heads from nature 1838. _d._ Godalming, Surrey 15 March 1868. INVERARITY, JONATHAN DUNCAN. _b._ 1812 or 1813; entered Bombay civil service 1830; comr. in Scinde 1859–62; member of council at Bombay 24 March 1862–65 when he retired on annuity. _d._ Rosemount, Forfarshire 28 April 1882. INVERNESS, CECILIA LETITIA GORE UNDERWOOD, Duchess of (8 dau. of 2 earl of Arran 1734–1809). _b._ 1788. (_m._ (1) 14 May 1815 sir George Buggin who _d._ Great Cumberland place, London 12 April 1825 aged 65; _m._ (2) 1830 Augustus Frederick 1 duke of Sussex, he was _b._ Buckingham house 27 Jany. 1773, _d._ Kensington palace 21 April 1843); assumed her maternal surname of Underwood by sign manual 2 May 1831; cr. duchess of Inverness 10 April