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Richard Ingrams

(1937-), Journalist and editor

Richard Reid Ingrams

Sitter in 12 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.

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'Private Eye'

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1965
NPG P512(23)

Private Eye

by Gerald Scarfe
pen and indian ink, 1972
NPG 6433

'The Private Eye men against whom an injunction was granted' (Richard Ingrams; Willie Rushton; Christopher John Penrice Booker; Nicholas Lamert Luard)

by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, March 1963
NPG x198432

The Staff of Private Eye, 1965

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1965
NPG x135520

Private Eye

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, May 1965
NPG x38946

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

Contact sheet including Jeffrey Barnard; Martin Tompkinson; Richard Ingrams; Dudley Moore; Peter Cook; Willie Rushton; Malcolm Muggeridge; Auberon Waugh; Francis Claud Cockburn

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

The staff of Private Eye

by Muir Vidler
C-type colour print, 8 September 2011
NPG x135583

The staff of Private Eye

by Muir Vidler
C-type colour print, 8 September 2011
NPG x135584

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