Background
Ingram was born in Birmingham in 1941, the son of a toolmaker and grandson of a gamekeeper.
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David Stanley Ingram, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, VMH, Financial Stability Board, FRSE, F.I.Biol, FLS, F.I. Horticulture is an Honorary Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh Ingram served as Master of Saint Catharine"s College, Cambridge between 2000 and 2007.
Education
After graduating from school, He apprenticed as a gardener, but soon decided to study botany at a university. Starting in 1960 at Hull, Ingram studied under Noel Robertson. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in botany in 1963, Ingram stayed on at Hull to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Pathology.
During his Doctor of Philosophy he worked as Robertson"s research student and studied the interaction of Phytophthora infestans with tissue cultures of potato.
Career
From an early age he had an interest in botany. He selected the University of Hull because it enabled him to read botany in combination with geology and psychology, other nascent interests of his. After receiving his doctorate, moved to the University of Glasgow in 1966 to work with Percy Wragg Brian.
In Glasgow he taught and carried out research in Botany, Plant Pathology and Biotechnology.
During this time he extended his work on the interaction between pathogens and host tissue cultures, notably with Plasmodiophora brassicae, cause of clubroot of brassicas. In 1968, along with Brian, Ingram moved to the University of Cambridge.
He first worked in the American Red Cross Unit of Developmental Botany. In 1974 he was appointed as a lecturer in botany and became a fellow of Downing College.
In 1988 He was elevated to reader in Plant Pathology at Cambridge.
At Downing during this time he also served as Director of Studies in Biology, Dean, and Tutor for Graduate Students. Between 1990 and 1998, Ingram was the Regius Keeper (Director) of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. He was concurrently Honorary Professor in Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities and RHS Professor of Horticulture while Regius Keeper.
He was then Master of Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge from 2000 to 2007.
During this time he served as the Chair of the Colleges’ Committee and the Colleges’ representative on the Council of University Senate.
Achievements
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Ingram is an Honorary Professor, at Edinburgh and Lancaster Universities. He is a Visiting Professor at Glyndwr University. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Saint Catharine"s and Downing College, Cambridge as well as at Worcester College, Oxford, the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He is also an Honorary Member of the British Society for Plant Pathology. He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Cambridge in 1986.
Membership
He is also an Honorary Member of the British Society for Plant Pathology.
