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MR EDWARD M. B. INGRAM (Rec. 11.52 p.m.) LONDON, May 14. The mounting list of distinguished people who have been killed by enemy action is further increased with the announcement of the death of Mr Edward Ingram, Diplomatic Adviser to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, who was killed while fire-watching. Mr E. M. B. Ingram was a son of Major E. R. B. Ingram, and was born in 1890. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and entered the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service in 1919, subsequently being appointed private secretary to the additional Parliamentary Undersecretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Arthur Steel Maitland and Sir Hamar Greenwood. He was assistant secretary to Lord Milne’s special mission to Egypt in 1920, and was transferred to Oslo in 1924 as First Secretary, acting as Charge d’Affairs from 1924-25, proceeding to Berlin in a similar capacity in 1926-27, and assuming an appointment in the Foreign Office in 1927. Two years later he went to Peking as Acting Counsellor, and he also acted a Charge d’Affairs from 1931-34. Mr Ingram was appointed to the Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare in 1939, prior to which he was stationed in Rome as Charge d'Affairs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24607, 15 May 1941, Page 8
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205OBITUARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24607, 15 May 1941, Page 8
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