John Kells Ingram such as the Book of Kells. Ingram died in 1907 in his house, 38 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, where he had lived since 1884, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Ingram married Margaret Johnston Clark on 23 July 1862 at Maghera Church, County Londonderry. They had five children: Ingram's influence on economics was described by economist Richard Theodore Ely as: John Kells Ingram John Kells Ingram (7 July 1823 – 1 May 1907) was an economist and poet who started his career as a mathematician. He has been co-credited, along with John William Stubbs, with introducing the geometric concept
Book of Kells pages were, in effect, turned into carpet pages. The decoration of these texts is so elaborate that the text itself is almost illegible. The opening page (folio 29r) of Matthew may stand as an example. (See illustration at left.) The page consists of only two words: "Liber generationis" ("The book of the generation"). The "lib" of "Liber" is turned into a giant monogram which dominates the entire page. The "er" of "Liber" is presented as an interlaced ornament within the "b" of the "lib" monogram. "Generationis" is broken into three lines and contained within an elaborate frame in the right