Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, (née Allen; 27 May 1944 – 28 June 2020) was a writer on English art and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 2004 to 2018.
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Biography
Ingrid Mary Allen was born at Rugby School, Warwickshire 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 married Brigadier Kenneth Hargreaves who would become the last Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1970 and then the first Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 1974 to 1978. She had eight grandchildren and was the patron of numerous groups.
Academic career
Roscoe abandoned an English degree at the University of Nottingham to marry John Richard Marshall Roscoe at the age of 19 on 5 October 1963. The couple had three children (Nick, Emma, and Katie). She subsequently studied at the University of Leeds, completing a BA in Fine Art and Cultural Studies in 1985 and a PhD in 1990. Her doctoral thesis on Peter Scheemakers was published by the Walpole Society. Roscoe remained at Leeds University in the 1990s as a Lecturer in British Sculpture in the Department of Fine Art.