{{Short description|British art historian (1944–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Dame Ingrid Roscoe | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DCVO|DStJ|FSA}} | image = Dr Ingrid Roscoe Halifax, West Yorkshire (RLH) (cropped).JPG | caption = Ingrid Roscoe, Inspecting the 3rd Battalion (Duke of Wellington's) of the Yorkshire Regiment (31 March 2007) in Halifax | office = Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire | term_start = 2004 | monarch = Elizabeth II | predecessor = John Lyles | successor = Edmund Anderson | birth_name = Ingrid Mary Allen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|5|27|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|6|28|1944|5|27|df=y}} | death_place = | term_end = 2018 }}
'''Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|DCVO|DStJ|FSA}} ({{nee}} '''Allen'''; 27 May 1944 – 28 June 2020)<ref name="WW"/> was a writer on English art and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 2004 to 2018.<ref name="YP">{{cite news |last1=Pantry |first1=Lindsey |title=Tributes to long-serving former Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Dame Ingrid Roscoe |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/tributes-long-serving-former-lord-lieutenant-west-yorkshire-dame-ingrid-roscoe-2898603 |access-date=29 June 2020 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=29 June 2020}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{cite news |editor-last=Witherow|editor-first=John|title=Swedish art expert and a first female lord-lieutenant |work=The Times |issue=73,239 |date=15 August 2020 |page=77|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> She had eight grandchildren and was the patron of numerous groups.{{cn|date=March 2026}}
==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.<ref>[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/30310/honorary_graduates/308/ingrid_roscoe University of Leeds - Ingrid Mary Roscoe - Para three] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223145635/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/30310/honorary_graduates/308/ingrid_roscoe/ |date=23 December 2010 }}</ref> Roscoe remained at Leeds University in the 1990s as a Lecturer in British Sculpture in the Department of Fine Art.{{cn|date=March 2026}}
==Publications== Roscoe was editor-in-chief and co-author of ''A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851'', published in November 2009.<ref>[http://www.allbookstores.com/Biographical-Dictionary-Sculptors-Britain-1660/9780300149654 ''A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851''], {{ISBN|978-0-300-14965-4}}</ref> The book is an update of Rupert Gunnis's ''Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851'' (originally published 1953).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laing |first1=Alastair |editor1-last=Bianchi |editor1-first=Paola |editor2-last=Wolfe |editor2-first=Karin |title=Turin and the British in the age of the Grand Tour |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-14770-6 |page=347 |chapter=19: A Plurality of Pluras}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=British sculpture 1470 to 2000: a concise catalogue of the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum|last=Bilby|first=Diane|publisher=V&A|year=2002|pages=xv}}</ref>
==Honours== Roscoe was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of West Yorkshire in 1994 and was the north of England's first female Lord Lieutenant when she became Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire in 2004. She retired in 2018.<ref name="YP"/><ref>[https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/7123/dame_ingrid_roscoe The University of Leeds, obituary, published 30 June 2020]</ref>
She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Ingrid Roscoe — BA History of Fine and Decorative Arts 1985; PhD 1990; Hon LLD 2010 |url=https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/news/article/1600/dame-ingrid-roscoe-ba-history-of-fine-and-decorative-arts-1985-phd-1990-hon-lld-2010 |website=The University of Leeds |date=2 July 2020 |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
She was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) the University of Huddersfield in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary awards are a recognition of national and international success |url=https://www.hud.ac.uk/about/honorary-graduates/ |website=The University of Huddersfield |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
She was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D) by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=HONORARY GRADUATE DIRECTORY |url=https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/-/media/files/alumninew/honorary-graduate-directory.pdf |website=Leeds Beckett University |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
She was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D) by the University of Leeds on 15 July 2010.<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who | title=Roscoe, Dame Ingrid (Mary) | id = U41878 | type = was | volume = 1920–2019 | edition =2020 online | access-date = 29 June 2020 }}</ref><ref>[https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/7123/dame_ingrid_roscoe The University of Leeds, obituary, published 30 June 2020]</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary graduates: 1904 to present |url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/honorary-graduates/doc/honorary-graduates-1904-to-present |website=The University of Leeds |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
She received an Honorary Fellowship from Bradford College in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11628996.local-weatherman-blogging-bishop-and-chamber-president-among-those-given-honorary-fellowships/ |title=Local weatherman, blogging bishop and Chamber president among those given Honorary Fellowships |last=Young |first=Chris |date=27 November 2014 |website=The Telegraph and Argus |access-date=13 April 2022 }}</ref>
She served as the Honorary Colonel of the University of Leeds Officers' Training Corps.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Ingrid Roscoe — BA History of Fine and Decorative Arts 1985; PhD 1990; Hon LLD 2010 |url=https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/news/article/1600/dame-ingrid-roscoe-ba-history-of-fine-and-decorative-arts-1985-phd-1990-hon-lld-2010 |website=The University of Leeds |date=2 July 2020 |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> {| class="wikitable sortable" !Country !Date !Appointment !Ribbon !Post-nominal letters !Notes |- |United Kingdom |2012 |Dame of Justice of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem |100x100px |DStJ |<ref>{{cite web |title=The Lord-Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Dr Ingrid Roscoe, received the award from HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge |url=https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2017/november/wyorkslord-lieutenantandunicouncilmemberreceivesdamehood/ |access-date=13 April 2022 |website=The University of Huddersfield |language=en}}</ref> |- |United Kingdom |16 June, 2017 |Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |100x100px |DCVO |<ref>{{London Gazette | issue = 61962 | date = 17 June 2017 | page = B4 | supp = y }}</ref> |}
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080905140732/http://www.westyorkshirelieutenancy.org.uk/ll.html West Yorkshire Lieutenancy Official Website]
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