A proposal for a new book

Cherry Ingram: an Illustrated Life

Expressions of interest from publishers would be welcome at

ernie@pollardweb.com

Aims and structure of the book

The aim is to make use of a lifetime of sketching to illustrate a long and fascinating life. He lived to be 100 and filled his century with birds, plants and travel, interrupted only by the two world wars.

Preface

The editor is married to Collingwood Ingram' s granddaughter - the wedding receptions was in The Grange Garden. The Preface related his memories of him  from 1963 to his death in 1981 and his being given custody of his archive of journals, sketches, photographs and other documents. 

The body of the book consists of an Introduction followed by four parts, as follows:

1. From birth in 1880 to marriage in 1906. This part will shown in full in this section of the website.

2. 1906 to 1918: the young ornithologist, including his period in the Bird Room of the Natural History Museum, birding in Japan and in France before WW1 and his service in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1.

3. 1918 to 1948: his move to The Grange at Benenden and creation of a cherry garden. his researches on cherries including his journey to Japan in 1926 and culmination in the publication of his monograph on Ornamental Cherries in 1948. These cherry years were interrupted by extensive worldwide travels and later by WW2 and his service as Commander of the Benenden Home Guard.

2 1948 to 1981: an energetic old age, with a return to ornithology, the prime of his garden, and his status as a grand old man of British gardening.

Part 1 will be added to the website over the next few weeks

- starting with the Introduction.

The the basic structure of the book, after the Introduction,

is to show pages in pairs, sketches on the verso page and associated text on the recto.