J.T. Ingram, Professor of Dermatology, Collection

Portraits, medals, lecture notes, lecture outlines, vinyl recordings including of speeches given by Ingram for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation titled 'The Subject of Skin Diseases' in 1955, correspondence, certificates telegrams, reprints of lectures given by Ingram on the subject of dermatology, research notes compiled by Ingram of notable Yorkshire-based doctors, speech notes, menu cards, correspondence with overseas dermatology societies, poems, brochures, travel guides, newspaper cuttings, articles and obituary notices relating to Ingram's death in 1972. order of service cards for thanksgiving services to Ingram, letters congratulating Ingram on his retirement in 1964 (as Professor of Dermatology at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University), photographs of Ingram with staff at the Board of Medicine, University of Leeds in 1935-1936, photograph of Ingram with fellow first assistant staff at London Hospital in 1927, Christmas card cover co-designed by Ingram, photographs of Ingram with Leeds General Infirmary staff, photographs of Ingram attending the 8th International Congress of Dermatology at Copenhagen in 1930, the 9th International Congress of Dermatology at Budapest in 1935 and 10th at London in 1952, handbook of poetry compiled by Ingram, newspaper cuttings.

Known as Jack to many of his friends, John Ingram (1899-1972), was born in Exeter and attended Hele’s School and University College in Exeter. He married Lucy Taylor in 1927 and they had one daughter, Pamela; Lucy Ingram died in 1957 and in 1959 he married Kathleen Raven, who was matron of the General Infirmary in Leeds and later became Chief Nursing Officer of the Department of Health and Social Security.

Ingram graduated in medicine from the University of London in 1923, despite his medical training being interrupted by the First World War - he joined the Artist’s Rifles in 1918 with the rank of second lieutenant and also served with the Royal Engineers. At London Hospital, his chief post was first assistant to Dr J. H. Sequeira in the skin department until 1928, having previously held the posts of house physician to the Skin Department and clinical assistant in the Skin and Light Department. Ingram was then appointed physician in charge of the Skin Department at the General Infirmary in Leeds, where he remained until moving to Newcastle as Professor of Dermatology in 1959.

Ingram believed that dermatology was a vital area of medicine and needed to be regarded as of similar importance with other medical subjects. He therefore established a first class department at Leeds and by the time of the Second World War, had put together a skin department regarded as the best in the country, while his "Ingram treatment" of Psoriasis became internationally recognised. On the outbreak of war Ingram went into the army and was sent to France as a consultant dermatologist to the British Expeditionary Force. Upon his return Ingram would combine his role at Leeds with lecturing across the world on the subject of dermatology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1936, Chairman of the Medical Faculty of the Leeds Infirmary from 1949 to 1952, Chairman of the Leeds Division of the British Medical Association from 1941 to 1944, Treasurer of the International Congress of Dermatology in 1952 and served as President and Treasurer of the British Association of Dermatology.

In 1958 Ingram accepted the post of Professor of Dermatology at University of Durham (later Newcastle University), where remained until he retired in 1964. His publications with R. T. Brain included 'Sequeira's Diseases of the Skin'; 'Clinical Dermatology'; and 'Nursing Care of the Patient with Skin Disease'.

The collection consists of many papers acquired by Ingram throughout his career, including photographs, portraits, lecture notes and reprints on the subject of dermatology.

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