Joan Alicia Ingilby

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(11 December 1911 – 27 October 2000) was a

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poet, historian and collector. Her books recorded life in the Yorkshire Dales and she was a co-founder of a museum founded on the artefacts that she and

Marie Hartley Marie Hartley (29 September 1905 – 10 May 2006) was writer or co-writer and illustrator of some 40 books on the social history of the Yorkshire Dales. Life Hartley was born into a prosperous family of wool merchants at Morley, near Leeds. ...

had collected.

Life

Ingilby was born at Sleningford Grange in North Stainley on 11 December 1911. Her parents were Marjorie Cecily (born Phelips) and Lieutenant-Colonel John Uchtred Macdowall Ingilby. Her father was related to the family who own Ripon Castle. Ingilby was sent to Norfolk for her education. She was a poet and her work was published in Country Life and

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. Marie Hartley and Ingilby started to work together. Hartley had previously been in a long partnership with

Ella Pontefract Ella Pontefract (1896 – 23 February 1945) was the writer of six books on the social history of the Yorkshire Dales related to disappearing rural traditions. Pontefract and her partner Marie Hartley developed a rigorous transcription method f ...

and they had published six books together. Pontefract had died young in 1945. Ingilby was an admirer of Ponterfract, she said "She loved people and was the best listener I have ever met". Ingilby and Hartley curated written material and artefacts. They stored their collection at their 17th-century cottage at

Askrigg Askrigg is a small village and civil parish in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is part of the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The village and its parish are located in Upper Wensleydale, west of Leyburn ...

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. In the early 1970s they donated their gatherings to the former North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. In 1979 their donation formed the basis of the

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. They wrote the "groundbreaking" ''Life and Traditions in the Yorkshire Dales'' (1968), and ''The Old Hand Knitters of the Dales'' (1951) which showed how important knitting is. These two are considered to be classics. The archive of their documents and photographs remains in the care of the

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, whose Silver Medal they won in 1993. Both were appointed

in 1997, and in 1999 received honorary degrees from the

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. Ingilby died in 2000 aged 89. Hartley lived until 2006 and she too was cremated and both their ashes were cast on a hill above where they lived in the Yorkshire Dales.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingilby, Joan 1911 births 2000 deaths British women artists Members of the Order of the British Empire British women writers