Ingrid Roscoe

Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, DCVO, FSA (1944 – 28 June 2020) was a writer on English art and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire.[1]

Ingrid Roscoe, Inspecting the 3rd Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) of the Yorkshire Regiment (31 March 2007) in Halifax

Ingrid Roscoe was born at Rugby School in 1944 to Arthur Allen and Else, who had married after only meeting three times. Her father died during Ingrid's childhood, her mother subsequently marrying Brigadier Kenneth Hargreaves who would become Lord-Lieutenant between 1970 and 1978.

Roscoe abandoned her English degree at the University of Nottingham to marry Marshall Roscoe, at the age of 19, and had three children. She was very interested in the arts, publishing articles and then studying at the University of Leeds, completing a BA and PhD. Her doctoral thesis on Peter Scheemakers was published by the Walpole Society.[2] She stayed on at Leeds University to lecture in the 1990s. On 15 July 2010 Roscoe was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by the university.

Roscoe was editor-in-chief and co-author of A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851, published in November 2009.[3] The book is an update to Rupert Gunnis's Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (originally published 1953).[4][5]

Honours

Roscoe served in the Lieutenancy of West Yorkshire since 1994, when she was made a deputy Lieutenant, and became the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire in 2004.[1] She had eight grandchildren and was the patron of numerous groups.

Roscoe was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 2017 Birthday Honours.[6]

References
  1. Pantry, Lindsey (29 June 2020). "Tributes to long-serving former Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Dame Ingrid Roscoe". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. University of Leeds - Ingrid Mary Roscoe - Para three Archived 23 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851, ISBN 978-0-300-14965-4
  4. Laing, Alastair (2017). "19: A Plurality of Pluras". In Bianchi, Paola; Wolfe, Karin (eds.). Turin and the British in the age of the Grand Tour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 347. ISBN 978-1-107-14770-6.
  5. Bilby, Diane (2002). British sculpture 1470 to 2000: a concise catalogue of the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. V&A. pp. xv.
  6. "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B4.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
John Lyles		 Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
2004–2018		 Succeeded by
Edmund Anderson
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