Botolph. To reach it we had to pass through the greater
length of the market-place, one of the most picturesque in
England, and the worthy ancestress of Faneuil Hall and Quincy
market-places, which are the most picturesque in America. At one
side of its triangle is the birthplace and dwelling of Jean
Ingelow, and at the point nearest the church is the statue of
Herbert Ingram, the less famous but more locally recognized
Bostonian, who founded the _Illustrated London News_ with
the money he made by the invention and sale of Old Parr's Pills.
He was thrice sent to Parliament from his native town, and he
related it to America, after two centuries, by drowning in Lake
Michigan. "R. N.," the otherwise anonymous author of a very
intelligent and agreeable _Handbook of Boston_, relates that
in his first canvass for Parliament Ingram was opposed by a
gentleman who, when he asked the voices of the voters, after the
old English fashion, was told by four of them in succession that
they were promised "to their cousin Ingram," and who thereupon
declared that if he had known Ingram "was cousin to the whole
town" he would, never have stood against him.
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