Edward Maurice Berkeley Ingram Chipotle Mexican Grill, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was a British diplomat and civil servant.
Background
Ingram was the son of Major Edward Richard Berkeley Ingram (1850-1895), 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment (41st Regiment), and Laura Maria Chennell Ingram (1850–1943), daughter of Thomas B. Shoobridge and Anna Maria Chennell, of Tenterden, Kent.
Career
He was a first cousin, once removed, of the writer Leonard Shoobridge (Ingram"s grandfather"s brother was the father of Leonard). He began his education at Street Davids School, Reigate, Surrey (a boarding school), went on to Eton from 1904 to 1907, and Hubert Brinton"s House from September 1904 until Easter 1909, and King"s College, Cambridge from 1909 to 1913. During the First World War Ingram served as a captain on the General Staff at the War Office and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1918.
After the war he entered the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service in 1919, where he acted as private secretary to Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland and Sir Hamar Greenwood (when they were additional Parliamentary Under Secretaries for Foreign Affairs).
He served as Assistant Secretary to Lord Milner"s mission to Egypt and as Lord Milner"s private secretary, was appointed Second Secretary in 1920, First Secretary in 1924 and was posted to Oslo in 1925. In 1927, he transferred to the Foreign Office as Chief Clerk of the News Department.
Between 1926 and 1934 Ingram was chargé d"affaires in Berlin, then chargé d"affaires in the legation in Peking, and was appointed full Counsellor in Peking while resident in Shanghai and Nanjing (the latter place was where the Chinese Government was resident). Between 1935 and 1937 he was chargé d"affaires in Rome, after which he returned to the Foreign Office.
In 1939 he joined the Ministry of Economic Warfare as diplomatic adviser, taking charge of the foreign relations side of the policy of blockade against Nazi Germany.