IMPEY, SIR ELIJAH, brother of Michael Impey (adm. 1730, qv); b. 13 Jun 1732; adm. Sep 1740; KS 1747; Capt. of the School 1751; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Jan 1752, scholar 24 Apr 1752, matr. Easter 1754; Chancellor’s Second Medal 1756; BA 1756; MA 1759; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1757, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1759; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Nov 1751, called to bar 23 Nov 1756; Western Circuit; Recorder of Basingstoke 11 Apr 1766-73; adm. Inner Temple 20 Nov 1766, tenant chambers there 21 Nov 1766 – 16 Jun 1768; Counsel for East India Company before House of Commons 1772; Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Bengal 22 Mar 1774 – 1 Nov 1787; knighted 30 Mar 1774; confirmed committal of Nuncomar for forgery and sentenced him to death 1775; ruled that Warren Hastings (qv) had not resigned the post of Governor-General 1777; his judicial powers were restricted by a compromise between Hastings and Philip Francis 1779; President of new Appeal Court (Sadar Diwani Adalat) over local tribunals 1780-2; recalled to defend himself against charges of illegality brought by Francis 1783; defended himself successfully against six charges at bar of House of Commons 1788, including the proceedings against Nuncomar and the exercise of extended judicial powers contrary to his patent; MP New Romney 1790-6; his biography was written by his son, Elijah Barwell Impey (qv), and published in 1846; m. 18 Jan 1768 Mary, dau. of Sir John Reade, Bart., Shipton Court, Oxfordshire; d. 1 Oct 1809. DNB.

IMPEY, ELIJAH BARWELL, son of Sir Elijah Impey (qv); bapt. 6 Aug 1779; adm.; at school 1791; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1793; KS 1794; Capt. of the School 1798; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1799, matr. 22 May 1799, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 – Nov 1806, Faculty Student from 4 Nov 1806; BA 1803; MA 1806; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 15 Dec 1808; retd. Jun 1809; his Memoirs of his father, written “in refutation of the calumnies of the Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay”, were published in 1846, and contain interesting references to the school and to his schoolfellows; d. unm. 3 May 1849.

IMPEY, EDWARD, youngest son of Sir Elijah Impey (qv); b. 25 Feb 1785; adm. 29 Sep 1794 (Clapham); in school list 1795; KS 1799; Writer, EICS Bengal 13 Oct 1800; arrived in India 24 Oct 1801; Assistant to Judge and Magistrate, Birbhum1803; held various other appointments; Judge and Magistrate, Jungle Mehauls 24 Aug 1810; Judge and Magistrate, Murshidabad City 25 Jan 1812; Judge and Magistrate, Cuttack, and Superintendent, Tributary Mehauls 13 May 1814; Acting Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal, Murshidabad 3 Feb 1818; suspended from office 30 Nov 1819; returned to England 1819; dismissed from EICS 27 Nov 1822; went to live in Paris, but returned to England before his death; m. 31 Oct 1813 Julia, eldest dau. of Chevalier Antoine de L’Etang, veterinary surgeon, France and India; d. 29 Aug 1858.

IMPEY, ARCHIBALD ELIJAH, natural son of Sir Elijah Impey (qv); b.; adm. 13 Jul 1772; KS (aged 12) 1778; went to Blundell’s Sch., Tiverton, Devon; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Oct 1782, scholar 1785, matr. Mich. 1782; BA 1787; MA 1791; adm. Inner Temple 13 Jul 1784, called to bar 18 Jun 1790, tenant chambers there from 2 Feb 1787, Bencher 1830; aided his father in his defence at the bar of the House of Commons 1788; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1793-1831, when post abolished); one of Commissioners for settling British claims on France under Treaty of Paris, 1814; collected materials for a biography of Warren Hastings (qv), utilised by Rev. G. R. Gleig in his Life of Warren Hastings, 1841; m. 4 Oct 1800 Sarah, dau. of Rev. C. Nathaniel Proby [ she bapt. Monks Eleigh, Suffolk 1776 ? (IGI)]; d. 9 Jul 1831.

ILLINGWORTH, GEORGE, son of James Illingworth, Ripon, Yorks.; b.; adm. 10 Apr 1776; readm. 1 Oct 1778; KS (aged 15) 1780; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1784, matr. 9 Jun 1784, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1784 – 2 Jan 1799 (expiry year of grace as R. South Tidworth from 9 Jan 1798), Tutor 1790-6, Junior Censor 1794-6; BA 1788; MA 1791; BD 1798; Proctor 1797; ordained; Curate, Cowley, Oxford 1794; Whitehall Preacher 1796; Rector of South Tidworth, Hampshire, from 1797; Vicar of Turkdean, Gloucs. 1798-1807; Rector of Weeke, Hampshire, from 10 Jan 1807; m. 1 Feb 1810 Emma, youngest dau. of Thomas Assheton Smith MP, Tidworth House, Hampshire; d. 28 Apr 1816.

ILLINGWORTH, EDWARD ARTHUR, son of Richard Illingworth, London; b. 15 Sep 1807; adm. 11 Jan 1819; KS 1822; left Nov 1825; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Feb 1826, matr. Mich. 1826; BA 1830; MA 1833; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1831, priest 23 Dec 1832 (both London); Chaplain, Middlesex House of Correction, Coldbath Fields 1839-72; m. 1839 Mary Anne, dau. of J. H. Taylor; d. 3 Sep 1883.

ILES, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1604, matr. 23 Nov 1604, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1619; BA 1608; MA 1611; BD and DD 1619; ordained; Rector of Lasborough, Gloucs., from 1609; Rector of Todenham, Gloucs., 1618-46, sequestrated; Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford 13 Mar 1621/2-33; Prebendary of Gloucester from 13 Jul 1622; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 14 Dec 1632; Rector of Little Mongeham, Kent 1635 – Mar 1643/4, sequestrated; expelled from Christ Church by Parliamentary Visitors for “high contempt” 17 Mar 1647/8; m. 1st, Anne, dau. of Rev. John Weston DCL, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford; m. 2nd, Martha, widow of Rev. Thomas Anyan DD, President, Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford, and dau. of Rev. Griffin Vaughan, Minister of Ashtead, Surrey; d. 20 Jun 1649. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Iles, John Hyde, son of Francis Henry Wilson Iles, M. D., of Watford, Herts, by Georgiana Isabel Pidcock; b. Nov. 19, 1878; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 24, 1891; left Feb. 1893; Caius Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. July 2, 1896); Tancred Student; B.A. 1899; M.A. and B. Ch. 1907; London Hospital; temp. Capt. R.A.M.C. Dec. 1, 1917; practised at Starcross, Devon, and later at Pocklington School; d. Dec. 12, 1954.

IEVERS, ROBERT HENRY, son of Henry Ievers, Limerick, Ireland; b.; in school list 1795, 1797; KS (aged 14) 1800; left 1803; drowned off coast of Africa.

Ibotson, Clarence William Percy, son of Charles Percy Ibotson, of Colnbrook, Bucks, and Helen Marie, d. of G. W. Passingham of Colnbrook; b. 15 Apr. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (KS); left July 1924; Selwyn Coll. Camb., matric. 1924; a toy manufacturer; RASC 1940, transf. RAOC Oct. 1942 (Lieut.-Col.); m. 1 Jan. 1938 Muriel, d. of Gilbert Roberts of Fairfield, Manchester; d. 27 Jan. 1981.