IBRAHIM , MIRZA MUHAMMAD. b. Persia ; a great English scholar ; assistant professor in the Oriental department at Haileybury college near Amwell, Herts., professor of Arabic and Persian there 1829 -44 ; retired on a pension from H . E .I. Co. ; translated Isaiah into Persian, London 1834 but the title page is in Arabic ; wrote A grammar of the Persian language, London 1841, and other books published in Leipzig ; tutor to the heir of the Shah of Persia. d. Teheran, Persia, July 1857.

ICELY , THOMAS. 6. Plymouth, Nov. 1797 ; went to New South Wales 1819 ; a merchant and shipper Sydney ; member of legislative council 1842-56 ; a member of the upper house 1864 to death . d . Elizabeth farm , Paramatta 13 Feb. 1874. Heaton's Australian Dict. of dates ( 1879) 99.

IDDESLEIGH , SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTH COTE, 1 Earl of ( eld, son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792 – 1850). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818 ; ed. at Eton 1831-6 and at Balliol coll. Ox., B . A . 1839, M . A . 1842, D.C.L. 1863 ; barrister L .I. 19 Nov. 1847 ; legal sec. to board of trade 1847 ; sec. to comrs. of Great exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 Nov. 1851 ; C . B . 25 Oct. 1851, G . C . B . 20 April 1880 ; M . P . Dudley 1855 - 7 , M . P . Stamford 1858 – 66 , M . P . North Devon 1866 - 85 ; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867 ; P . C . 6 July 1866 ; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868 ; governor of Hud son Bay co . 5 Jany. 1869 ; chancellor of the exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880 ; elected lord rector of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884 ; cr . earl of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co. Devon 3 July 1885 ; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to 6 Feb . 1886 ; author of A short review of the history of the navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849 ; A statement connected with the elections of W . E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford 1847, 1852 and 1853, 1853 ; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862 ; reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch . Roxburgh Club 1887. d . in Lord Salisbury's ante-room , Downing st. Lon don 12 Jany. 1887. Lang's Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. Northcote, new ed . (1891), 2 portraits ; D . Anderson's Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 24 - 28 ; C . Brown's Life of Beaconsfield , i 98 (1882), portrait ; W . Hole's Quasi Čursores (1884 ) 19, 21- 3, portrait.

NOTE. - He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Three Clerks under the name of Sir Warwick West End.

IDDISON, ROGER. b. Bedale, Yorkshire 15 Sep. 1834 ; a butcher ; kept a shop for sale of cricket articles at Manchester 1864 ; one of the first team of English cricketers who played 15 matches in Australia 1 Jany. to 22 March 1862 ; played his first match at Lords 9 - 11 June 1862 ; played in 27 first-rate matches and made 1059 runs 1867 ; founded with George Freeman the United North of England Eleven 1869; professionalat Harrow school 1871- 2 ; joint sec. with C . D . Barstow of Yorkshire United Eleven 1874 ; a first-rate batsman , a good fieldsman at point and a good lob-bowler ; a commission agent at York 1870 to death. d . 20 Blake st. York 19 March 1890. Illust. sporting news, iii 441 (1864), portrait

IDLE, CHRISTOPHER. b. Kent 1799 or 1800 ; lived in France some years, then in Argyle shire ; joint editor with J. H . Walsh of The Field 1858 - 9 ; contributed to the Review and Land and Water ; a salmon fisher ; a whist player and member of Graham 's and the Portland clubs ; a member of the Reform where he was one of the best ecarté players 1856 to death ; edited The rural almanack 1855 ; author of Hints on shooting and fishing 1855, 2 ed. 1865. d. 11 Norris st. Haymarket, London 28 May 1871. Westminster papers July 1871 p. 44 ; Field 3 June 1871 p. 447.

IGGULDEN , John. b. Deal 1 June 1777 ; notary and proctor Doctors' commons, Lon don ; one of the 3 deputy registrars of prero gative court of Canterbury , Doctors' commons 1829 to death. d. 8 Russell sq . London 18 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery.

IKIN , JOHN ARTHUR. b . 1810 ; solicitor at Leeds 1832 to death ; town clerk of Leeds 19 July 1843 to death . d . Scarcroft grange near Leeds 4 Sep. 1860. Leeds Intelligencer 8 Sep . 1860 p . 5 .

ILBERY, JOSIAH JAMES. b . London 16 Sep. 1769 ; superintendent Liverpool and Manchester railway 1826, superannuated in 1855 when 86 years old being one of the oldest and most indefatigable railway officers in the world . d . Douglas, Isle ofMan 11 April 1869 when almost a centenarian. Reg. and Mag. of Biog . i 485 -6 (1869).

ILCHESTER, HENRY STEPHEN Fox STRANGWAYS, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Ilchester 1747 – 1802). . 21 Feb. 1787; styled lord Stavordale 1787– 1802 ; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., D . C . L . 1814 ; succeeded his father 5 Sep. 1802 ; capt. Dorsetshire regt. of yeomanry 15 April 1808, lieut.-col. commandant 12 Feb .