He graduated M.A. at Edinburgh, and then was incorporated at the
University of Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge by
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester and parliamentary visitors; he was Fellow there from 1644 to 1646. At Cambridge, he met and admired the
Cambridge Platonist Henry More:
Bentivolio and Urania is influenced by his thought. He was unsuccessful as minister to the Independent congregation at
Broadmead,
Bristol, who found his taste in clothes too loud and disapproved of the church music which was his passion. He then became a Fellow of
Eton College in 1650. He went as chaplain on
Bulstrode Whitelocke's 1653 embassy to
Sweden. On that occasion
Andrew Marvell addressed a Latin poem to him. Marvell was a friend from Eton. where he was tutoring William Dutton, ward to
Oliver Cromwell. The poem was actually intended for
Queen Christina of Sweden, and was duly presented to her by Whitelocke. Ingelo himself performed music by
Benjamin Rogers for the Queen.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester mentions Ingelo (as well as
Richard Sibbes and
Simon Patrick) in his poem
A Satyr against Reason and Mankind. ==Works==