The late Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P. for Boston - from a photograph by John Watkins, 1860. British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram (1811-1860) 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. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.