Ingram, John Kells 1823-1907
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1823 · died 1907
John Kells Ingram was an Irish mathematician, economist and poet. He has been co-credited, along with John William Stubbs, with introducing the geometric concept of inversion in a circle.
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Correspondence, 1850-1906, with family, economists, positivists and others. Also many miscellaneous papers, printed books, photographs.
Ingram papers, PRONI
Some papers from his work for the Royal Irish Academy and the Brehon Law Commissioners. Notebooks and lectures on literary topics.
Trinity College, Dublin.
Correspondents
RICHARD CONGREVE, six letters (and c.150 of Congreve’s to Ingram), 1861-1899.
BL Add. MSS. 45228, 45233.
RICHARD THEODORE ELY, four letters, 1880s.
Ely papers, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, nine letters, 1873.
B. M. Add. MSS. 44437-44438.
WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS, two letters, 1881.
Jevons papers, Manchester JRUL
THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE LESLIE, one letter, 1878.
London UL, AL 63.
Printed Material
C. L. FALKINER, Memoir of John Kells Ingram ( Dublin, 1907).
Bibliography of the Writings of John Kells Ingram, 1823-1907 ( Dublin, 1909).
ESS VIII 34; New Palgrave; ODNB.
Portrait: see Centenary History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland ed. R. D. Collison Black ( Dublin, 1947).