Leonard Victor Ingrams, OBE (1 September 1941 – 27 July 2005) was a financier and opera festival founder/impresario.
His parents were Leonard St Clair Ingrams, who served in the Secret Service during the Second World War, and Victoria (née Reid).
[3] After five years living in Jeddah he and his family moved to Italy where he studied the viola under Bruno Giuranna in Siena.
Ingrams would travel extensively to seek out singers for particular roles, and under his leadership the Garsington Opera orchestra was established, with its core from the Guildhall Strings.
[4] Ingrams married Rosalind Moore in 1964, after she had also graduated in classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and was beginning her Masters' thesis on Rubens under the supervision of Edgar Wind.