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IRBY, WILLIAM, 1st BARON BOSTON, only son of Sir Edward Irby, Bart., MP, and Dorothy, dau. of Hon. Henry Paget; b. 8 Mar 1706/7; succ. father as 2nd baronet 11 Nov 1718; adm. Aug 1719; left 1722; Page of Honour to George I and George II 29 Feb 1723/4 – May 1731; Equerry to Frederick, Prince of Wales 10 Dec 1728-36; Vice-Chamberlain to Augusta, Princess of Wales 1 Aug 1736-49, Lord Chamberlain to Princess of Wales 1749-72; MP Launceston 24 Mar 1734/5-47, Bodmin 1747-61; created Baron Boston 10 Apr 1761; Chairman of Committees, House of Lords, from 1770; m. 26 Aug 1746 Albinia, Maid of Honour to Augusta, Princess of Wales, sister of Charles James Selwyn (qv); d. 31 Mar 1775.

Iredell, David Arthur, brother of John Charles Lesingham Iredell (qv); b. 3 Feb. 1922; adm. Jan. 1935 (A); left Dec. 1938; RAC 1941-6; King's Coll. Land., BA 1950; Building Employers' Confedn 1953-86; sec. Nat. Joint Consultative Committee for Building 1973-86; m. 15 Aug. 1967 Denise Hankey, lecturer, d. of Herbert Anthony Hankey, wireless pioneer; d. 10 May 1989.

Iredell, John Charles Lesingham, son of Charles Edward Iredell MD MRCP and Isobel Hilda, d. of Harry Burrard Farnall of Auckland, NZ; b. 2 Apr. 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (A); left July 1932; RA 1940-3 (Lieut.); an architect, ARIBA 1948; d. 28 July 1990.

IRELAND, GEORGE, son of Richard Ireland, St. James’s, Westminster, and Susanna Tildesley (IGI); b. 3 Jul 1716; adm. (aged 11) May 1728; in school list 1731; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 May 1733; BA 3 Feb 1736/7. [Parents m. Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, so was father a lawyer ?]

IRELAND, JOHN, brother of Richard Ireland (at school 1582, qv); bapt. 14 Mar 1573/4; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1591, matr. 10 Feb 1592/3, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1603; BA 1595; MA 1599; Head Master, Whitgift GS, Croydon, Surrey 1601-6; buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 27 Sep 1607.

Ireland, John; Dean of Westminster. Son of Thomas Ireland, Ashburton, Devon, butcher, and Elizabeth --- ; b. 29 Sep 1761 ; educ. Ashburton GS ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1779, bible clerk ; BA 1783 ; MA 1810 ; BD and DD 1810 ; MA Lambeth 1793 ; DD Lambeth 1803 ; ordained deacon 20 Jun 1784, priest 25 Sep 1785 (both Exeter) ; Curate, Kingsteignton, Devon 1784 ; tutor to son of Sir James Wright, Bart. ; Vicar of Croydon, Surrey 15 Jul 1793- Mar 1816 ; Vicar of Shoreham, Kent 27 Nov 1806 – Jun 1816 ; Chaplain to Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool ; Canon of Westminster 14 Aug 1802-16, Sub-Dean 1806-16, Dean of Westminster from 1816 ; Rector of Islip, Oxfordshire 26 Mar 1816 – Oct 1835 ; m. 29 Jan 1794 Susannah, dau. of John Short, Bickham, Devon ; d. 2 Sep 1842. Buried South Transept, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
In 1820 he gave £500 3 per cent Consols to the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Head Master of the School for the time being, the interest on which was to be applied for the purchase of books, which as “Dean’s Prizes” were to be given to encourage verse composition. The prizes were subsequently known as the Ireland Prizes. The endowment is now held in the School’s Ireland Fund (terms varied by schemes of 19 Apr 1965 and 8 Nov 1965).

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.