
Watch lost in shipwreck comes home after 165 years
The pocket watch belonged to Boston MP Herbert Ingram, who drowned in Lake Michigan in 1860.
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Herbert Ingram was a British journalist and politician. He is considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of The Illustrated London News, the first illustrated magazine. He was a Liberal politician who favoured social reform and represented Boston for four years until his early death in the shipwreck of the Lady Elgin.
The pocket watch belonged to Boston MP Herbert Ingram, who drowned in Lake Michigan in 1860.