Richard Ingrams

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Richard Ingrams (born August 19, 1937) was a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963.

Richard Ingrams was one of four sons. His parents were Leonard St Clair Ingrams and Victoria (née Reid). Ingrams was educated at Shrewsbury School and University College, Oxford where he read Classics and shared tutorials with Robin Butler, later Cabinet Secretary and a pillar of the Establishment. He did his National Service in the ranks after failing his interview for officer training.

Along with several of his Shrewsbury friends, including Willie Rushton, Ingrams founded Private Eye in the early 1960s as part of the satire boom which also saw the formation of The Establishment nightclub, run by Peter Cook. After handing over the editorship of Private Eye to Ian Hislop in the late 1980s, he moved on to create and edit The Oldie, a monthly humorous lifestyle and issues magazine aimed at the older generation. He is still Chairman of Private Eye, working there every Monday^[1].

He was a regular on the radio panel quiz The News Quiz and contributed a column to The Observer. In late 2005 he moved to The Independent .

Ingrams married Mary Morgan in 1962; they have 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 Ford, who died of a heroin overdose in Brighton in early 2004. The banker and opera impresario Leonard Ingrams (1941–2005) was one of his brothers. Ingrams is a church-going Anglican; the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust was formed under the patronage of Ingrams and the then Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie.

A biography, Richard Ingrams: Lord of the Gnomes (ISBN-10: 0434778281) was published by Harry Thompson in 1994.

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• Paul Foot
• Private Eye
• The Oldie

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• Richard Ingrams interview
• The Oldie

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