Dignitaries

Ingrid Roscoe was born at Rugby School on 27 May 1944. Her father, Dr Arthur Allen, a wartime squadron-leader in the RAF, was in Devon with the forces being mobilised for D-Day. Her future god-father, a house-master at Rugby and a school friend of Arthur, provided a refuge for Ingrid's mother, Else.

She studied English for a year at Nottingham University and jettisoned her degree to marry a Yorkshire man, Marshall Roscoe, at the age of 19. The couple settled near Wetherby and have three children. Ingrid started to become involved in voluntary activities as a young mother, first locally and then nationally, choosing principally to support arts-orientated causes. She began to publish articles on aspects of the fine and applied arts.

Dr Roscoe enjoys regular visits to Calderdale, and the Foundation have now begun to organise a structured tour of businesses and community groups each year, to read about these tours, visit our news section.

Please visit the Lord-Lieutenancy website to find out more about the role and Dr Roscoe.

Other dignitaries involved with the Foundation are;

Vice President

• Sir Bernard Ingham

Life Vice Presidents

• Tony Gartland DL
• Sir Ernest Hall OBE DL
• Bill Rooney OBE
• Lord Shutt of Greetland OBE
• Edward Wood

Friends of the Foundation

• John Kettley
• Mike Blackburn
• Peter Blackburn
• Harry Gration
• Lord Kirkham of Old Cantley
• Viscount & Viscountess Mackintosh of Halifax
• Richard Blakey
• Ursula Holden-Gill