Ingley, CLEMENT MANSFIELD, an eminent Shakespearian scholar, was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 29th October 1823, was educated privately, and afterwards proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1847, and became M.A. in 1850, and LL.D. in 1859. He entered his father's office as a solicitor, and practised for a short time, though by no means assiduously or con amore; and after his father's death in 1859 relinquished the profession altogether to devote himself to a busy life of letters. He was one of the two English honorary members of the Weimar Shakespeare Society, an original trustee of Shakespeare's birthplace, a vice-president of the New Shakespeare Society (a post he afterwards resigned), and successively foreign correspondent and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. He died 26th September 1886.
His earliest work, Outlines of Theoretical Logic (1856), was followed by An Introduction to Metaphysic (1864-69) and The Revival of Philosophy at Cambridge (1870). But the most important work of his literary life began when he published The Shakespeare Fabrications (1859) and A Complete View of the Shakespeare Controversy (1861). These were followed by Was Thomas Lodge an Actor? (1868); The Still Lion (1874), enlarged into Shakespeare Hermeneutics (1875); The Centurie of Prayse (1874); Shakespeare: the Man and the Book (1877-81); Shakespeare's Bones (1883); Shakespeare and the Enclosure of Common Fields at Welcombe (1885); and an edition of Cymbeline (1886). A selection of admirable Essays on a wide range of subjects was issued in 1888 by his son, Holcombe Ingleby, who prepared in the same year, for private circulation, a brief memoir of his father, with a collection of his epigrams, translations, and verses.