History - Family Portraits
Sir Thomas Ingram (1614-1672). School of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), 53½ X 37½ (136 X 95)
The portrait is mentioned in the Temple Newsam inventories since 1688 and appears to have hung in the Blue
Striped Dressing Room since c1862 whither it was returned in 1990. Sir Thomas was the younger son of Sir
Arthur Ingram the elder by his second wife Alice Ferrers. King James I attended his christening and he
remained a staunch royalist all his life, becoming MP for Thirsk 1640-45. During the Commonwealth he was
imprisoned briefly but compounded and was fined £2,933.
His reward at the Restoration was his appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in whose robes he
is depicted here (although seated on a surprisingly humble rush-bottomed chair). On his marriage in 1637 to
Frances Bellasyse, daughter of Viscount Fauconberg of Newburgh Priory, he was given the estate at Sheriff
Hutton by his father which he retained until its sale c1663. He, his wife and daughter (qv) are buried in
Westminster Abbey.
Temple Newsam 18.3/83
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