IRELAND, RICHARD, son of Richard Ireland, King Street, Westminster, fishmonger, and Margaret Floud; bapt. 15 Jul 1571; at school (aged 11) 2 Jul 1582; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1587, matr. 9 Feb 1587/8, Westminster Student to 1598; BA 1591; MA 1594; Head Master of the School 1598- still Jan 1610, when in consideration of his health a joint patent of the Head Mastership, dated 25 Jan 1609/10, was granted to him and to John Wilson (elected Oxford 1602, qv); a few months later he became a Roman Catholic and fled to France; resident at Collège d’Arras, Paris, at 10 Jan 1617; living in London as a RC priest in 1623 (Foley, History of the English Province, i, 680); d. c. 1636 (will dated Douai 9 Oct 1636, proved Paris 12 Jul 1637).

IRELAND, RICHARD, son of William Ireland, Westminster, and Eleanor, dau. of William Ryman, Westminster; bapt. 15 Jul 1613; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1629; KS 1630; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1632, matr. 26 Oct 1632, Westminster Student to 1643; BA 1636; MA 1638; ordained deacon 8 Jul 1663, priest 17 Jul 1663 (both Chichester); Vicar of Wilmington, Sussex 7 Jan 1663/4-75; Vicar of Ringmer, Sussex, from 16 Jan 1666/7; buried Ringmer 1 Sep 1680.

IRELAND, THOMAS, son of William Ireland, verger, Westminster Abbey; bapt. 24 Nov 1632; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; ejected from his Studentship by Dean Owen, and migrated to St. Mary Hall, Oxford; BCL 4 Jul 1659; adm. Gray’s Inn 26 Feb 1656/7; reinstated to Westminster Studentship at Christ Church 1660, but resigned it in 1664 to become a candidate for position of Reader in Moral Philosophy; Faculty Student, Christ Church 1665-75; licence for ordination 1672/3; Chancellor, Diocese of Durham 1674; according to Wood, Fasti Oxonienses, pt. ii, 200, Ireland “might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of the poets”; recited on his knees in Christ Church Hall before Charles II and Catherine of Braganza on 29 Sep 1663 one hundred and sixteen Latin verses of his own composition, subsequently printed; d. Dec 1676.

IRETON, CHARLES, son of Matthew Ireton, Middlesex, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 28 Jan 1634 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1648; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 25 May 1650, scholar 1650, matr. Easter 1650.

IRVINE, SOMERSET GORGES, fifth son of Maj. Gorges Marcus Irvine, Castle Irvine, co. Fermanagh, and Elizabeth, dau. of Judge D’Arcy, Dunmow Castle, co. Meath; b. 2 Dec 1812; adm. 13 Oct 1825 (Stelfox's); presumably Somerset Gore D’Arcy Irvine, adm. King’s Inns, Dublin, 1830; entered Royal Navy [check]; m. 1st, ---, dau. of Abraham Hargrave, Cove, co. Cork; m. 2nd, 28 Sep 1846 Emblyn, youngest dau. of J. Knox Hannington, Dungannon Castle, co. Tyrone.

Isaacs, Alan Henry, brother of Geoffrey Henry Isaacs (q.v.); b. Dec. 9, 1899; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (R); left July 1918; adm. a member of the London Stock Exchange 1929; m. Oct. 19, 1938, Dorothea, younger daughter of Dennis E. Samuel; d. 1968.

Isaacs, Edward Norris, son of M. Isaacs, of Maida Vale; b. July 6, 1902; adm. May 4, 1916 (H); left Dec. 1920.

Isaacs, Geoffrey Henry, son of Henry Isaacs, of Hampstead, by Edith Hannah, daughter of John J. Solomon, of Notting Hill; b. Nov. 19, 1898; adm. May 2, 1913 (R); left April 1917; 2nd Lieut. 23rd Batt. London Regt. Sept. 26, 1917; Lieut. March 26, 1919; a Far-Eastern merchant; m. Oct. 30, 1929, Daphne Nina, daughter of Bernard Myers, C.M.G., F.R.C.P., of London W1; d. 6 July 1978.

ISACKSON, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1609 (Chapter Muniments 41289).

ISHAM, JUSTINIAN, second son of Rev. Zacchaeus Isham DD, Prebendary of Canterbury and of St. Paul’s, Rector of Solihull, Warwicks., and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Pittis DD, Rector of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London; grandson of Thomas Isham (qv); b. 15 May 1695; adm.; QS (Capt., aged 15) 1711; buried Westminster Abbey 21 Jan 1713/4, in nave, near the Baptistery.