John Ireland (d. November 1808) was a British writer. He was born at the Trench Farm, near Wem in Shropshire; the house had been the birthplace and country house of William Wycherley, whose widow is said to have adopted him, but, dying without a will, to have left him unprovided for. His mother was daughter of the Rev. Thomas Holland, and granddaughter of Philip Henry. Ireland was first apprenticed to Isaac Wood, a watchmaker, of Shrewsbury. He afterwards practised as a watchmaker in Maiden Lane, London, and was a well-known member of the society that frequented the Three Feathers coffee-house, Leicester Fields. He published in 1785 a poem, The Emigrant, for which he apologised on the score of youth. He was a friend of John Henderson the actor, and in 1786 published Henderson's Letters and