Editing Richard Ingrams (section)

==Personal life==
Ingrams married Mary Morgan on 24 November 1962;<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=fj7hDhWXLlbtD7Qt29y%2FjQ&scan=1 |title=Index entry |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}}</ref> they had three children: a son, Fred, who is an artist; a second son, Arthur, who was disabled and died in childhood; and a daughter, Margaret ("Jubby") a mother of three who died in 2004, aged 39, of a heroin overdose in Brighton.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/news/daughter-of-exprivate-eye-editor-killed-by-overdose-6959562.html |title=Daughter of ex-Private Eye editor killed by overdose |work=Evening Standard |location= London|date=21 July 2004}}</ref>

Ingrams played the organ for many years in his local [[Anglican]] church in [[Aldworth]], Berkshire, each Sunday.<ref name="Leapman1">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Leapman |url= http://www.newstatesman.com/200203110012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061227192003/http://www.newstatesman.com/200203110012 |archive-date=27 December 2006 |work=New Statesman |location= London |title= Profile – Richard Ingrams |date=11 March 2002 |access-date=3 August 2008 |url-status= dead}}</ref> The [[Romney Marsh]] Historic Churches Trust was formed under the patronage of Ingrams and the then [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[Robert Runcie]]. In 2011 he announced he had converted to [[Roman Catholicism]].<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>

Ingrams currently lives in Berkshire with his wife (who is also his god-daughter) Sara, a medical researcher.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/08/richard-ingrams-oldie-private-eye |title= Richard Ingrams: 'I have lots of enemies, some of them enduring' |first=Stuart |last=Jeffries |work=The Guardian |location= London |date=8 June 2014}}</ref> Before they married in 2011 he had a "long-term partner, Debbie Bosley, a waitress-turned novelist 27 years his junior".<ref>'Richard Ingrams In Love: Is He Serious?', Elizabeth Grice, ''The Daily Telegraph'', 3 March 2011</ref>

His sister-in-law (wife of his late brother Rupert, a publisher) was [[Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth]]; his nephew Caspar is the present baron.

A biography, ''Richard Ingrams: Lord of the Gnomes'' ({{ISBN|0-434-77828-1}}) by [[Harry Thompson]], was published in 1994. In 2020, his life was encapsulated in a satirical mock-autobiography, "Richard Ingrams Writes his Memoirs," published in ''The Fence''.<ref>[https://www.the-fence.com/products/issue-4/ 'Richard Ingrams Writes his Memoirs', Kevin Gardner, ''The Fence'', Issue 4, Summer 2020, p. 44]</ref>
[[File:Richard Ingrams Writes His Memoirs.png|thumb|alt=A truthful but satirical poem purporting to be Ingrams' autobiography|Richard Ingrams Writes His Memoirs]]