Under the terms of his grandfather Machell's will, Rich inherited the property of Hills, with 190 acres, at Horsham, together with a burgage at Horsham, several properties in London and in other parts of England, at his age of 21 years: the will having been proved in 1704 by the executors, Rich was sworn to probate, aged 22, as Rich Ingram alias Machell on 10 March 1711/12.[9]
He died from smallpox in April 1721, aged 33. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.[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. She died in December 1764.[1]
^The name Rich (as correctly given by Cracroft) refers to the Ingram family descent from Lady Essex Montagu (d. 1677), great-granddaughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick.
^J. Peile, Biographical Register of Christ's College, 1505-1905 (Cambridge University Press 2014, original 1913), p. 155, who was copied by J. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses Part I Volume 2 (Cambridge University Press 1922), p. 449.
^Challen, 'John Machell, M.P., Horsham', Sussex Notes and Queries (1964).
^H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), pp. 9-20.
^J. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I: The Earliest Times to 1751, Vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press 1922), p. 449.
