Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, DCVO DStJ FSA (27 May 1944 – 28 June 2020)[1] was a writer on English art and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 2004 to 2018.

[2] Ingrid Roscoe was born at Rugby School, Warwickshire in 1944 to Arthur Allen and Else, who had married after only meeting three times.

[4] Roscoe remained at Leeds University in the 1990s as a Lecturer in British Sculpture in the Department of Fine Art.

Roscoe was editor-in-chief and co-author of A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851, published in November 2009.

[5] The book is an update of Rupert Gunnis's Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (originally published 1953).