# Bruce Ingram
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{{Short description|British publishing entrepreneur and philanthropist (1877–1963)}}
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| name = {{nowrap|Bruce Stirling Ingram}}
| honorific_suffix = [MC](/source/Military_Cross)
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| birth_place = {{nowrap|[London](/source/London), England}}
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| father = {{nowrap|[Sir WIlliam Ingram](/source/Sir_William_Ingram%2C_1st_Baronet)}}
| mother = Mary Eliza Collingwood Stirling
| spouse = {{marriage|Amy Foy|1904}}
{{marriage|Lily Grundy|1947|1962|end=died}}
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| occupation = {{nowrap|Publisher}}
| relatives = [Collingwood Ingram](/source/Collingwood_Ingram) (brother)
[Herbert Ingram](/source/Herbert_Ingram) (paternal grandfather)
{{nowrap|[Edward Stirling](/source/Edward_Stirling_(politician)) (maternal grandfather)}}
[Edward Charles Stirling](/source/Edward_Charles_Stirling) (uncle)
[Lancelot Stirling](/source/Lancelot_Stirling) (uncle)
[Sydney Grundy](/source/Sydney_Grundy) (father-in-law)
| awards = 40px [Legion of Honour](/source/Legion_of_Honour) – (1950)
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| service_years = 1898-1918
| unit = [Royal East Kent Yeomanry](/source/Royal_East_Kent_Yeomanry)
[Royal Garrison Artillery](/source/Royal_Garrison_Artillery)
| rank = [Captain](/source/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines))
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* [World War I](/source/World_War_I)
** [Western Front](/source/Western_Front_(World_War_I))
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| awards = [Military Cross](/source/Military_Cross)
[Legion d'Honneur](/source/Legion_d'Honneur)
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'''Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram''' [MC](/source/Military_Cross) (5 May 1877 – 8 January 1963) was a British publishing entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the editor of ''[The English Illustrated Magazine](/source/The_English_Illustrated_Magazine)'' (September 1899 – September 1901), ''[The Sketch](/source/The_Sketch)'', and ''[The Illustrated London News](/source/The_Illustrated_London_News)'' from 1900 to 1963.[[http://www.philsp.com/data/data229.html Magazine Data] Galactic Central, 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.] Ingram was credited with introducing greater use of photography in the News and introducing the Rembrandt Regalio process which enabled faster printing of the paper.[[http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/historyofiln.htm ''A History of The Illustrated London News'' by Edward B. Orme 1986]iln.org.uk, 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.]
==Life==
Ingram was born in [London](/source/London), England, the second of three sons to [Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet](/source/Sir_William_Ingram%2C_1st_Baronet), and Mary Eliza Collingwood Stirling (d.1925).[{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34103 |title=Bruce Ingram |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34103 |access-date=2016-10-03}}] His maternal grandfather [Edward Stirling](/source/Edward_Stirling_(politician)) was born in Jamaica to a Scottish planter and an unnamed woman of colour. He concealed his racial identity and later settled in South Australia, where he was elected to parliament; his sons (Ingram's uncles) [Lancelot](/source/Lancelot_Stirling) and [Edward Charles Stirling](/source/Edward_Charles_Stirling) were also members of parliament.[{{cite journal|url=https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n10094/pdf/05_robertson.pdf|first=Beth M.|last=Robertson|title=Edward Stirling: Embodiment and beneficiary of slave-ownership|year=2022|journal=Australian Journal of Biography and History|volume=6 |doi=10.22459/AJBH.06.2022|number=6|pages=103–124 |doi-access=free }}]
Ingram was Chairman of Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd., Director of Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Ltd, and President of Illustrated Newspapers Ltd.[[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/search/quick?quicksearch=Bruce+Ingram ''Who's Who 2014 and Who Was Who''] [A & C Black](/source/A_%26_C_Black), 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.] These had been founded by his grandfather, [Herbert Ingram](/source/Herbert_Ingram).
He was commissioned a [second lieutenant](/source/second_lieutenant) in the [Royal East Kent Yeomanry](/source/Royal_East_Kent_Yeomanry) on 14 May 1898, and promoted to [lieutenant](/source/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) on 14 March 1900.[{{London Gazette|issue=27173| page=1717|date=13 March 1900}}] The [Yeomanry](/source/Yeomanry) regiments were reserve forces. During the [First World War](/source/First_World_War) he had a distinguished service record. He joined as a lieutenant in the East Kent Yeomanry, then transferred to the [Royal Garrison Artillery](/source/Royal_Garrison_Artillery) in France and rose to the rank of captain. He was awarded the [Military Cross](/source/Military_Cross) for bravery in 1917 and was [mentioned in dispatches](/source/mentioned_in_dispatches) three times.[{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p61665.htm#i616649 |title=Person Page |website=Thepeerage.com |date= |access-date=2016-10-03}}]
He was also Hon. Vice-president, [Society for Nautical Research](/source/Society_for_Nautical_Research), Hon. Keeper of Drawings, [Fitzwilliam Museum](/source/Fitzwilliam_Museum), Cambridge and Hon. Adviser on pictures and drawings, [National Maritime Museum](/source/National_Maritime_Museum), Greenwich.[
He was [knighted](/source/Knight_Bachelor) in the [1950 King's Birthday Honours List](/source/1950_Birthday_Honours) and received the French [Legion d'Honneur](/source/Legion_d'Honneur) in the same year.
In 1957 (to mark his 80th birthday) he presented 700 seascape drawings by the Van de Velde family to the [Greenwich Maritime Museum](/source/Greenwich_Maritime_Museum).][{{cite journal|jstor=874036|title=Sir Bruce Ingram as a Collector of Drawings|author1=Luke Herrmann|author2=Michael Robinson|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=105|date=May 1963|issue=722|pages=202+204–205+207}}]
[Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University) awarded him an honorary [Doctor of Letters](/source/Doctor_of_Letters) (D.Litt.) in 1960.[{{cite web|url=http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not&idNotice=1108 |title=Site officiel du musée du Louvre |website=Cartelfr.louvre.fr |date= |access-date=2016-10-03}}]
==Notable employees==
Ingram chose his journalists and columnists carefully. In 1905 he employed [G. K. Chesterton](/source/G._K._Chesterton) to write the ''Notebook'' feature in his papers. On Chesterton's death in 1936 Ingram replaced him with [Arthur Bryant](/source/Arthur_Bryant).
==Family==
In 1904 he married Amy Foy, they had one daughter, Averil Stirling Bruce (b.1905), and one son, David Martin Bruce Ingram (1917–1930).[{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p61666.htm |title=Person Page |website=Thepeerage.com |date= |access-date=2016-10-03}}] In 1947, following his wife's death, he married Lily (d. 1962), daughter of the playwright [Sydney Grundy](/source/Sydney_Grundy).[Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 2, pg 2048] They had one son, who died in childhood.