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 of the 12th century. The abbey church was converted to a parish church in which the Book of Kells remained. The 12th-century writer Gerald of Wales, in his "Topographia Hibernica", described seeing a great Gospel Book in Kildare which many have since assumed was the Book of Kells. The description certainly matches Kells: Since Gerald claims to have seen this book in Kildare, he may have seen another, now lost, book equal in quality to the Book of Kells, or he may have misstated his location. The Book of Kells remained in Kells until 1654. In that year, Cromwell's cavalry