Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine

Colonel Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine (6 January 1688 – 10 April 1721), was an English peer and politician.

[1] Of the nine brothers, three died in infancy, five acceded to the Viscountcy, and only one, Charles (father of the 9th and final Viscount of Irvine), had children.

[2][3] His grandmother Helena was a daughter of Gervase Warmestry, and step-daughter of Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet,[4][5] He schooled at Eton College and was admitted Fellow-Commoner at Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 14 in 1703,[6] where his elder brother the 4th Viscount had studied with the Master, John Covel.

[12] Lord Irvine was succeeded by his younger brother, Arthur, to whom the Horsham estate also passed by entail in default of male issue from Rich.

The Viscountess of Irvine was a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales (mother of George III) in 1736 and married, as her second husband, Brig-Gen. William Douglas (MP for Kinross-shire) in 1737.