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Ingrams married Mary Morgan on 24 November 1962; they had three children: a son, Fred, who is an artist; a second son, Arthur, who was disabled and died in childhood; and a daughter, Margaret ("Jubby") a mother of three who died in 2004, aged 39, of a heroin overdose in Brighton.
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Ingrams currently lives in Berkshire with his wife (who is also his god-daughter) Sara, a medical researcher. Before they married in 2011 he had a "long-term partner, Debbie Bosley, a waitress-turned novelist 27 years his junior".
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to have gone downhill, particularly as a consequence of its support for the Iraq war. In his 27 August 2011 column, he announced that he had been sacked by the newly appointed editor of
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was the first publication to break the story of Savile's history of child abuse, after several national newspapers had been unwilling to print it.
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in the army ranks after failing his interview for officer training, something which was unusual for someone from his background at the time. At
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ran into financial problems Cook was able to gain a majority shareholding on the proceeds of his brief but financially successful venture.
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from 1976 to 1984, though he rarely showed much enthusiasm for the medium. He was a regular on the radio panel quiz
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Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948, Christopher Knowles, 2017, p. 218
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Ingrams's parents, who had three other sons including the banker and opera impresario
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Cobbett's Country Book: An Anthology of William Cobbett's Writings on Country Matters
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Historic Churches Trust was formed under the patronage of Ingrams and the then
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Lawrence Goldman, 2013, p. 587
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What the Papers Never Meant to Say: "Private Eye's" Second Book of Boobs
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After a series of clashes with James Pembroke, owner and publisher of
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His sister-in-law (wife of his late brother Rupert, a publisher) was
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and edited the school magazine. Before attending Oxford, he did his
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Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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magazine. He left the latter job at the end of May 2014.
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took over. In 1992 Ingrams created and became editor of
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for its first twenty years and contributed a column to
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of the early 1960s, which included the television show
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Ingrams played the organ for many years in his local
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In 2011 he announced he had converted to 1197: 1183: 1175: 1135: 962: 960: 958: 897:"Richard Ingrams in love – is he serious?" 387:; his nephew Caspar is the present baron. 268:Ingrams vacated the editor's chair at the 20: 506:Romney Marsh and the Royal Military Canal 227:in 1962, taking over the editorship from 760:The Penguin Book of Private Eye Cartoons 168:Ingrams was educated at the independent 870: 868: 834: 809:Jesus: Authors Take Sides: An Anthology 462:The Bible for Motorists: By Old Jowett 815:The Oldie Book of Cartoons, 1992–2009 754:"Private Eye's" Second Book of Pseuds 7: 1549:People educated at West Downs School 1544:People educated at Shrewsbury School 1499:Alumni of University College, Oxford 472:Harris in Wonderland: By Philip Reid 1484:20th-century British Army personnel 392:Richard Ingrams: Lord of the Gnomes 237:in 2008, of the "old boy network". 1064:Leapman, Michael (11 March 2002). 14: 895:Grice, Elizabeth (3 March 2011). 1494:21st-century English journalists 1489:20th-century British journalists 1095:Jeffries, Stuart (8 June 2014). 693:Ludo and the Power of the Book: 253:, for which Ingrams wrote, and 94: 360:, Berkshire, each Sunday. 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Index

London
England
University College, Oxford
BA
satirical
Private Eye
The Oldie

Leonard Ingrams
Sir James Reid
Baring family
Charles Grey
preparatory school
West Downs
Winchester
Shrewsbury School
Willie Rushton
National Service
University College, Oxford
Robin Butler
the Establishment
Paul Foot
Old Salopians
Willie Rushton
Christopher Booker
Desert Island Discs
Private Eye
satire boom
That Was The Week That Was
The Establishment

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