INGILBY, Sir John, 1st Bt. (1758-1815), of Ripley, Yorks.

Ingilby, one of the few illegitimate baronets of the reign,1Fortescue mss, Somers to Grenville, 11 Aug. 1806. replaced his father-in-law as Member for East Retford on the independent interest in 1790. He was suspected to be, and proved, a supporter of Pitt’s administration. In April 1791 he was reckoned as an opponent of the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland. On 6 June 1791 he spoke and was teller against a divorce bill. Later that year he visited the French princes at Koblenz and came home with ‘very sanguine opinions in favour of a counter revolution’. He cleared the gallery of the House during the debate on the prolongation of Warren Hastings’s trial, 7 June 1793, and was a teller on the contractors bill, 30 Apr. 1794. On 20 and 23 Jan. 1795 he was a defaulter and on 28 Jan. wrote to Pitt complaining of the expense to which he had been put to secure his election and attend the House. Later that year his father-in-law stated that ‘pecuniary embarrassments’ would prevent Ingilby from seeking re-election.2Nottingham Univ. Lib. Newcastle mss NeC 2669; Morning Chron. 3 Jan. 1792; PRO 30/8/147, f. 203; Portland mss PwF104. Amcotts himself resumed the seat and later Ingilby’s son captured it.

Ingilby died 13 May 1815, having ‘during the last 36 years of his life, discharged the important duties of a magistrate with a degree of activity, zeal and intelligence that will render his death an irreparable loss to the public’.3Gent. Mag. (1815), i. 568.