Richard Ingrams
(1937-), Journalist and editorRichard Reid Ingrams
Sitter in 14 portraits
Richard Ingrams was educated at Shrewsbury and University College, Oxford. He served his National Service as a private in the Royal Army Service Corps, after which, in 1962, he joined the satirical publication Private Eye. He became editor the following year, a post that he retained until 1986. Ingrams was television critic for the Spectator and was a long-standing columnist for the Observer (1987-2005) as well as founder and editor of the Oldie from 1992. He has written a number of spin-off books from Private Eye, as well as a biography of Malcolm Muggeridge.
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, March 1963
NPG x198432
The Staff of Private Eye, 1965
by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1965
NPG x135520
Richard Ingrams; Tony Rushton and two unknown women
by Lewis Morley
bromide fibre print, 1966
NPG x38961
Jeffrey Joseph Bernard; Martin Tomkinson; Richard Ingrams
by Eric Hands
modern bromide print from original negative, mid 1970s
NPG x133192
Richard Ingrams; Malcolm Muggeridge
by Jane Bown
bromide print on card mount, 1977
NPG x28623
by Eric Hands
modern contact sheet from original negative, 1979
NPG x133201
Contact sheet including Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown; Tony Rushton; Richard Ingrams
by Eric Hands
modern contact sheet from original negative, 2006
NPG x133202
by Muir Vidler
chromogenic print, 8 September 2011
NPG x135583
by Muir Vidler
chromogenic print, 8 September 2011
NPG x135584
Paul Mackintosh Foot; Richard Reid Ingrams; Richard Keith Stott
by Martin Rowson
pen and ink, 10 March 2002
NPG D49427
by Martin Rowson
gouache and ink on paper, published 2005
NPG D49476
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