The son and biographer of Sir Elijah Impey (1732–1809); educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he served briefly in the dragoons and published poetry.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Elijah Barwell Impey:

Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, knt. first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort William, Bengal; with Anecdotes of Warren Hastings, Sir Philip Francis, Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, esq., and other Contemporaries; compiled from Authentic Documents, in refutation of the Calumnies of the Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay.