Viscount of Irvine was a title in the Peerage of Scotland

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. It was created on 23 May 1661 for Henry Ingram, of Temple Newsam

Temple Newsam

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, Yorkshire

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, and Hoar Cross Hall

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, Staffordshire

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. He was made Lord Ingram at the same time, also in Peerage of Scotland. The third Viscount was Member of Parliament

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 for Scarborough

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 and Yorkshire

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 and served as Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire

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. The fourth Viscount was also Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The sixth and seventh Viscounts were both Members of Parliament for Horsham

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 and Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The title became extinct on the death of the ninth Viscount in 1778.

Viscounts of Irvine (1661)

• Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount of Irvine (1620–1666)
• Edward Ingram, 2nd Viscount of Irvine (1663–1668)
• Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine
  Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine
  Arthur Ingram, 3rd Viscount of Irvine was an English Member of Parliament and peer. He was the Vice-Admiral of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament for Yorkshire and Scarborough....
  
   (1666–1702)
• Edward Machel Ingram, 4th Viscount of Irvine (1686–1714)
• Richard Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine (1688–1721)
• Arthur Ingram, 6th Viscount of Irvine (1689–1736)
• Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount of Irvine (1691–1761)
• George Ingram, 8th Viscount of Irvine (1694–1763)
• Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine (1727–1778)