KENNETH INGRAM: A BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 ARCHIBALD KENNETH INGRAM

A BIBLIOGRAPHY

BY

BARRY VAN-ASTEN

Archibald Kenneth Ingram was born at St George, Hanover Square, London on 7^th June 1882, the only son of Archibald Brown Ingram, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland on 4^th October 1850, a Chartered Accountant who lived in Staines, London and Kate Agnes Francis born in Holloway, London in 1850, who were married in Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey in 1875. At the time of young Archibald’s birth his parents were living at Mount Ararat Road in Richmond, Surrey with A B Ingram’s father, George Simpson Ingram (born Aberdeen, Scotland on 30^th May 1815 and dying in Richmond on 3^rd October 1889) who was a Congregational Minister and A B’s stock broker brother George John Ingram together with their cook and house maid. George Simpson Ingram was the author of several long-winded ecclesiastical books such as – ‘Bishop Colenso, Objections to the Historical Truth of the Pentateuch: Answered by His Own Concessions and Admissions’ [in the Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined]. London. 1863, and the equally thought-provoking, ‘The Higher Ministry of Nature, or the Bearing of Creation on the Truth and Mission of Christianity: Considered in seven Lectures. London. 1865, or the delightfully enigmatic, ‘A Letter in Answer to the Inquiry – “Do the Scriptures Warrant a Belief in the Wicked being finally Rescued from Perdition and Admitted into Heaven?”’ Stirling. 1884. It would not be long before the Old Testament tincture of Mount Ararat Road gave way to the fresh breezes of Alum Chine, Kingston Hill, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey where the Ingram’s and their child, Archibald Kenneth would move to. Archibald Kenneth Ingram, he later dropped the ‘Archibald’, was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, entering in the Cricket Quarter of 1896 and boarding at the school’s Robinite House, Frith Hill Road, and leaving in the Long Quarter of 1899, the same year his father, Archibald Brown Ingram died in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales on 26^th January 1899 [he was buried at Llanrhaiadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbigshire on 31^st January]. Life at Alum Chine continued and for some years Kenneth’s Aunt Fanny – Fanny Elizabeth Francis, born in London in 1846, [she died age 86 in Epsom, Surrey on 29^th April 1933] has been living with them. In 1903 he organised a ‘Readers Club for Boys’ and meetings were at 8 p.m. and held at St Alban’s House [The Surry Comet. Wednesday 14^th October 1903. p. 8]. The following year, 1904, Kenneth, who is a member of the St Alban’s Debating Society, meeting at St Alban’s Clubhouse [Chiswick Times. Friday 21^st October 1904. p. 3] is employed as a Journalist, on the staff of The Church Times & The Treasury magazine. Ingram begins writing books on various subjects of historical, educational, theological and sociological concerns, influenced by the religious philosophy of the Scottish author and sociologist, John Macmurray (1891-1976); he became Assistant Secretary of the Kingston branch of the E.C.U. [English Church Union] whose headquarters were 35 Wellington Street, the Stand, London. He is called to the Bar and studies Law at Inner Temple, London, becoming a  Barrister-at-Law from November 1909; (in 1911 he is listed in the census as ‘assistant secretary Barrister-at-Law’ and his address is: 7, Figtree Court, Temple); He became Assistant Secretary of the English Church Union and also a Scoutmaster, 1^st Surrey, (Kingston Hill) ‘Mr Kenneth Ingram of Alum Chine, Kingston Hill as Scout Master’ [The Boy Scouts. The Surrey Comet. Wednesday 1^st December 1909. p. 4 (also  the following year in April 1910 Ingram was with his troop, 1^st Surrey, rehearsing in Richmond Park on Saturday 23^rd April for the Royal Review at Windsor in June but it was unfortunately postponed due to King Edward’s death. Boy Scouts. The Richmond Herald. Saturday 30^th April 1910. p. 6]; Ingram was also involved with the Scouts up to the war, mentioned in the Surrey Advertiser and County Times under ‘Boy Scouts and the War’ [Saturday 25^th November 1916. p. 6] as being ‘scoutmaster, 1^st Surrey’ who along with other scoutmasters ‘held ‘commissions in H. M. Army’. He entered service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) as an Able Seaman (service number: AA1350) during the First World War; he was stationed at the Royal Garrison Artillery, London Division of the Anti-Aircraft Corps and after entering service in August 1915, he served three years active service in France with an anti-aircraft battery in the line and he attained the rank of Lieutenant. Following the war he was Secretary of the Grants Committee, Appointments Department at the British Ministry of Labour, 1919-1923; he was a member of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly and wrote for the Anglo-Catholic Chronicle and was founder and Editor of the ‘Green Quarterly’ magazine (Society of SS. Peter & Paul, Westminster House, London in 1924); editor of the Police Journal (established 1928 and published by Philip Allan & Co. London) and Director of Quality Press, London (April 1944). He was a keen enthusiast of dramatic arts and often talked on the subject, particularly from a religious standpoint [he contributed his piece on ‘Religious Drama’ to The Churchman’s Handbook of 1936. London. The Church Assembly. 1935] – on Friday 1^st November 1929 he attended (along with fellow author Hugh Walpole and Headmaster’s from several public schools) an all schoolboy amateur production of George Bernard Shaw’s ‘St. Joan’ by Worksop College Dramatic Society produced by the Headmaster, Rev. F J Shirley (who also played Bishop Beauvais); the angelic St. Joan was played by 16 year old J W B Wilkinson whose beauty won the hearts of many that night. Ingram was fond of joining and forming clubs and societies and was a member of the Christian Evidence Society and of the Reform Club; he was a founder member of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (BSSSP) along with George Cecil Ives; founding member of the Temple Bar Club, established 1930, which met once a month to discuss modern ideas on religious thought and philosophical notions and founding member of The Grecian Club, also established in 1930, which met every third Tuesday in the month to discuss religious and philosophical matters, the first meeting occurring on 17^th October 1930 at Prince Henry’s Room, Fleet Street and subsequent meetings were held at the Cheshire Cheese public house, Fleet Street; the club was still active in the 1960’s. Ingram was well known for his charismatic public speaking and lectures throughout his career (see section: Ingram as Speaker) and was a Speaker on Foreign Affairs for the Common Wealth National Committee; he was also Vice-Chairman of the National Peace Council. During the 1940’s he became involved with the ‘Unser Kampf’ movement formed by Sir Richard Acland (1906-1990), a fellow Inner Temple barrister and one of the founders of the British Common Wealth party of 1942. In July 1952 he was invited to Moscow by the Soviet Government as part of a delegation of 14 Christians representing ‘members of various organisations and individuals, with a personal concern for maintaining peace and improving relations between the British and Soviet peoples.’ The plane left London Airport on Saturday 5^th July with only 12 of the original 14 delegates onboard travelling to Prague on the way to Moscow for their three week ‘peace’ visit; Kenneth Ingram is listed as ‘barrister’ and along with what seems a rather ineffectual bunch of delegates numbering the likes of: Mr. A MacDougall (chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers), Rev. Clifford Macquire (Fellowship of Reconciliation), Mr. John Horner (general secretary of the Fire Brigade Union), Mrs. Margaret Harvey (J. P. of Letchworth) and Mr Peter Marsh (seed grower) I’m not sure what use the delegation actually was or what good came of it. [Nottingham Evening Post. Saturday 5^th July 1952. front page]. He corresponded with several distinguished people in relation to his Christian philosophy, such as the social researcher, Richard Morris Titmuss (1907-1973); George Kennedy Allen Bell, (1883-1958), Bishop of Chichester (1929) who wrote an excellent biography of Archibishop Randall Davidson (1935); Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil (1869-1956), 1^st Baron Quickswood, politician and fellow member of the House of Laity in the Church Assembly, and Rev. John Albert Douglas (1868-1956), founder of the Nikaean Club (1926) who corresponded on the English Church Union and the Anglo-catholic Congress. Kenneth Ingram, who was living at Delves House, 31 Queen’s Gate Terrace, London, SW 7, died aged 82 on 28^th June 1965 at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital [Kensington News and West London Times. Friday 9^th July 1965. p. 9]

 

WORKS PUBLISHED:

 

A Short History of the Parish of Teddington. Archibald K. Ingram. Teddington. T W Childs. 1909. Booklet. pp. 24 with 3 pp. plate illustrations.

The Greater Triumph: A Story of Osborne and Dartmouth. Archibald K. Ingram.(with 7 illustrations by Donald Maxwell).London. A R Mowbray & Co. 1911. 8vo. pp. 222.

Boys: What they are and how to manage them. (With a Preface by Lt. Gen. Sir R S S Baden Powell). Archibald K. Ingram.London. A R Mowbray. 1911. 16mo. pp. 28.

Basil Verely: A Study in Charterhouse Life. Archibald K. Ingram. (with 8 black & white full page illustrations and coloured frontispiece by F. E. Hiley and H. L. Bacon). London. George Allen & Co. 1912. Cloth. Crown 8vo. pp. 318.

A Manual for Church of England Scouts, etc. Archibald K. Ingram. London. A R Mowbray. 1913. 8vo. xv pp. 94.

Is Divorce Needed? Kenneth Ingram. London. Wells Gardner & Co. 1914. 8vo. pp. 95.

The Faded Vision. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. John Murray. 1915. 8vo. pp. 362.

An Outline of Sexual Morality. Kenneth Ingram. (Introduction by F W W Griffin). London. Jonathan Cape. 1922. 8vo. pp. 93.

The Sun-Worshipper. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. J M Ouseley & Sons Ltd. 1923. 8vo. pp. 270. The novel was reviewed in The Irish Monthly. Volume 51, number 603. September 1923. pp. 477.

The Window. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. J M Ouseley & Sons Ltd. 1923. Light blue cloth cover, dark blue decoration and lettering. 8vo. pp. 61. Rare.

The Adventure of Passiontide. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1923. 8vo. pp. 64.

The Romance of Christmas. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1923. Grey card cover. 8vo. pp. 68.

The Anglo-Catholic Case: An Argument from the Logical and Practical Standpoint. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1923. 8vo. pp. 80.

The Symbolic Island. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. The Damian Press. 1924. pp. 233. The novel was reviewed in The Crusader, volume 6, 1924. p. 9 and The New Statesman, volume 23, 1924. p. 358.

England at the Flood Tide. Kenneth Ingram. London. The Damian Press. 1924. 8vo. pp. 220.

The Pilgrimage of Mass. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1924. 8vo. pp. 55.

The Romance of the Fiery Cross. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1924. 8vo. pp. 32.

This – to Explain. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1924. Sewn paperback. 8vo. pp. 51.

The Changing Order; and How a New Parson Came to the Village and Disquieted it with Strange Practices, and How the Meaning of Anglo-Catholicism was Expounded to the Squire. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan & Co. 1925. 8vo. vii pp. 183.

The Man Who Was Lonely. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. The Damian Press.1925. 8vo. vi pp. 254. The novel was reviewed in G. K.’s Weekly. 9^th January 1926. p. 437 and The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art and Finance. 2^nd January 1926. p. 15.

The Mystery of the Three Hours. (A New Meditation of the Passion). Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1925. Black cloth cover. 8vo. pp. 95. Rare. Reviewed in The Crusader, volume 7, 1925. p. 199 and The Month, volume 147. p. 282.

The Social Teaching of the Mass. Kenneth Ingram. London. Catholic Literature Association. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. [number 7 in the Anglo-Catholic Congress Books series] 1925. Small stapled paper cover. pp. 16.

A Portrait of Six Christian Heroes: St Appian, St Alban, St Athansius, St Francis De Sales, St Ignatius Loyola, George Elton Sedding. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1926. 8vo. vi pp. 103.

The Effect of Regular Confession. (Reprinted with emendations from “This – to Explain”). Kenneth Ingram. London. Catholic Literature Association. 1926. 8vo. pp. 8.

Why I Believe. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1927. Red cloth boards. 8vo. vii pp. 183.

Report of the Anglo-Catholic Congress. ed. Kenneth Ingram and Charles Scott Gillett. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1927. pp. 238.

How to Spend Holy Week. A Simple Guide to the Ceremonies. Kenneth Ingram. London. Catholic Literature Association. 1927. 12mo. pp. 11.

Out of Darkness: A Drama of Flanders. Kenneth Ingram. London. Chatto & Windus. 1927. Red cloth cover, gilt lettering. 8vo. pp. 312. Reviewed by Edwin Muir in The Nation & Athenaeum. 7^th May 1927. p. 154 and The Bookman, volume 67, 1928. p. xvi.

The Unreasonable of Anti-Christianity. A Reply to “Why I am Not a Christian”, by Mr. Bernard Russell. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1928. 8vo. pp. 31.

Has the Church Failed? Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan & Co. 1929. 8vo. pp. 222.

Sunday. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan & Co. 1929. [Publications of the Guild of St Francis of Sales series number 3]. 8vo. pp. 32.

The Sunday Mass and the Industrial Problem, etc. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1929. 8vo. pp. 23.

The Road to Easter. Kenneth Ingram. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul.1930. 12mo. pp. 96.

A Modern Attitude to the Sex Problem. Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1930. 8vo. pp. 158.

Report of the Anglo-Catholic Congress. ed. Kenneth Ingram and F Leslie Cross. London. Society of SS. Peter & Paul. 1930. Orange cloth boards, black lettering front and spine. pp. 213.

The Steep Steps. A Detective Story. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Philip Allan.1931. Red cloth cover with black line decoration. 8vo. vii pp. 319.

The Church of Tomorrow. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan & Co. 1931. 8vo. pp. 239.

Youth Looks at Religion. (Essays by Various Authors, [Christopher Casson, Peter Winckworth, Pamela Frankau, Susan Lowndes, E L B Hankin, Giles Playfair and W A Fearnley Whittingstall] with a Reply by the Archbishop of York), ed. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan. 1932. 8vo. pp. 166.

Midsummer Sanity. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Philip Allan. 1933. 8vo. pp. 295. Reviewed in Time and Tide. John O’ London’s, volume 15, issue 1-26, 1934. p. 152.

Death Comes at Night. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Philip Allan. 1933. 8vo. v pp. 308.

Modern Thought on Trial. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan. 1933. 8vo. viii pp. 245.

John Keble. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan. 1933. [Tractarian series].  8vo. pp. 184.

A Lay Devotion. Kenneth Ingram. London. Philip Allan. 1934. 8vo. pp. 88.

Is There a Future Life? Kenneth Ingram. London. Catholic Literature Association. 1934. 8vo. pp. 6.

The Coming Civilization: Will it be Capitalist? Will it be Materialist? Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1935. Green cloth cover. 8vo. pp. 209.

It Is Expedient. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Geoffrey Bles. 1935. Blue cloth cover. 8vo. pp. 297.

The Union Society of London: The First Hundred Years. ed. Kenneth Ingram and Alun Llewellyn. London. Union Society of London. 1935. 8vo. pp. 78.

Basil Jellicoe. Kenneth Ingram. (with portraits). London. The Centenary Press. 1936. Black cloth cover. 8vo. ix pp. 182.

Christianity: Right or Left? Which Way Will Religion Move in the World Crisis? Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1937. Red cloth boards. 8vo. pp. 207.

And He Shall Come Again. Kenneth Ingram. London. William Heinemann. 1938. [‘I Believe’ series, number 4]. 8vo. viii pp. 175.

The Ambart Trial. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Quality Press Ltd. 1938. 8vo. pp. 437.

The Christian Challenge to Christians. Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1938. 8vo. pp. 223.

The Defeat of War: Can Pacifism Achieve It? Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1939. Black cloth boards, silver lettering front and spine. 8vo. pp. 134.

Towards Christianity – The Religious Progress of the World. Kenneth Ingram. London. Student Christian Movement Press. 1939. 8vo. pp. 216.

Will Britain go Fascist? Kenneth Ingram. London. Christian Left (pamphlet, number 2) card cover, stapled paper. 1939. 8vo. pp. 11.

Sex Morality Tomorrow. Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1940. 8vo. pp. 175.

The Night is Far Spent. Kenneth Ingram. (novel) London. George Allen & Unwin. 1941. Blue cloth cover with white lettering on the spine. 8vo. pp. 125. Reviewed in the London Quarterly Review, volume 167, 1942. p. 121.

Malvern, 1941: The Life of the Church and the Order of Society, Being the Proceedings of the Archbishop of York’s Conference. Introduction by Archbishop William Temple. London. Longmans, Green & Co. 1941. Contributors: T S Eliot [‘The Christian Concept of Education’], Dorothy L Sayers [‘The Church’s Responsibility’] William Temple, John Middleton Murray, B Causton, W G Peck, M B Reckitt, D M Mackinnon, V A Demant, Sir Richard Ackland [‘Practical Questions I’] and Kenneth Ingram [‘Practical Questions II’]. 8vo. xv pp. 235.

A Christian Basis for the Post-War World. A Commentary on the Ten Peace Points. Ed. A E Baker, (with contributions by: Kenneth Ingram, Margaret Bondfield, A D Lindsay, Sidney Dark, Dorothy L Sayers, Letitia Fairfield, R R Stokes, John A Hughes, Barbara Ward and the Archbishop of Canterbury), Preface by the Bishop of Carlisle. London. Student Christian Movement Press. 1942. [Chapter III: ‘International Organisation’ by Kenneth Ingram. pp. 37-44]

Taken at the Flood. Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1943. Blue boards. 8vo. pp. 139. Reviewed in the International Affairs Review Supplement. Volume 19, number 12. June 1943. pp. 629.

Return of Yesterday. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Quality Press Ltd. 1943. 8vo. pp. 220.

The Premier Tell the Truth. Kenneth Ingram. London. Quality Press. 1944. Red cloth cover. 8vo. pp. 164. Italian translation: ‘El “Premier” dice la verdad’. Alban. 1946. pp. 197.

Christianity and Sexual Morality – A Modernist View. Kenneth Ingram. London. Union of Modern Free Churchmen. 1944. 8vo. pp. 22.

Religion and the New Society. Kenneth Ingram. London. C W Publishing. 1944. (Common Wealth Popular Library series). 8vo. pp. 15.

Guide to the New Age: A Political Guide for a Young Soldier and his Girl. Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1945. 8vo. pp. 192.

Years of Crisis: An Outline of International History 1919-1945. Kenneth Ingram. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1946. Orange cloth boards, black lettering front and spine. 8vo. pp. 487. Italian translation: ‘Anni di Crisi’. Milano, Longanesi. 1948. 8vo. pp. 574.

Communist Challenge: Good or Evil. Kenneth Ingram. London. Quality Press. 1948. Orange cloth boards, black lettering front and spine. 8vo. pp. 147.

Two Worlds in Focus: Studies of the Cold War. London. National Peace Council (Great Britain). Commission on East-West Relations. 1950. Ingram contributed an article: ‘Can the Two Worlds Co-Operate?’ in chapter III, p. 61. 8vo. xi pp. 133.

Christianity, Communism and Society. Kenneth Ingram. New York. Rider. 1951. 8vo. pp. 216.

Negotiation Not Appeasement. Kenneth Ingram. London. National Peace Council. 1951. [Peace Aims Pamphlet series number 51]. 8vo. pp. 6.

Easter Journey. Kenneth Ingram. London. Longmans Green. 1953. 8vo. ix pp. 109.

Storm in a Sanctuary. Kenneth Ingram. (novel). London. Ernest Benn. 1954. 8vo. pp. 224.

Return to Reality: Some Essays on Contemporary Christianity (various authors), Edited by S G Evans [Stanley George Evans]. London. Zeno. 1954. Contributions by: John Putterill, John Lewis, Thomas Williams MP, Edward Charles, John Tunnicliffe, the Dean of Canterbury and Kenneth Ingram who contributes his essay: ‘The Church and Social Thinking’. 8vo. pp. 300.

History of the Cold War. Kenneth Ingram. London. Darwen Finlayson. 1955. 8vo. pp. 239. [Ingram also wrote an undated paper entitled: ‘Atomic and Nuclear Weapons’ (circa 1954-56) which was read at meetings].

Fifty Years of the National Peace Council. Kenneth Ingram. London. National Peace Council. 1958. 8vo. pp. 27.

Is Christianity Credible? A Plain Guide for Intelligent Inquirers. Kenneth Ingram. London. The Faith Press. 1963. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 163. Originally: ‘Faith and Skepticism [sic] Today’ in the original undated typescript with holograph corrections, circa 1963 and published as ‘Is Christianity Credible?’ (1963).

 

Kenneth Ingram provided an Introductory Note to ‘A Garden of Song’ edited by Gabriel Gillett. The Society of SS. Peter & Paul. Westminster, London. 1923. folio. pp. 24.

Towards Old Age. Kate Agnes Ingram [Kenneth Ingram’s mother who was 83 years old], With a Memoir of the Author by Her Son Kenneth Ingram (with a portrait). London. Quality Press Ltd. 1945. 8vo. pp. 70.

 

Works submitted to George Allen & Unwin for approval of publication [Records of George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Correspondence file. University of Reading: Special Collections]:

Credo. 1920. Reader’s Report read by Bernard Miall.

Indian Summer. 1941. Reader’s Report read by Bernard Miall.

Easter Eve. 1942. Reader’s Report read by Eric Fenn.

Supreme Adventure. 1942. Reader’s Report read by Eric Fenn.

Way to the New World. 1944. Reader’s Report read by H J Stenning.

Political Guide in World Confusion. 1949. Reader’s Report read by Malcolm Barnes.

Religious Guide in this World. 1950. Reader’s Report read by Edward Lewis.

Possibilities of a Religious Revival. 1953. Reader’s report read by Richard Horton.

 

SHORT STORIES:

Contributions to the Philip Allan 14 volume series of ‘creeps’ which began in 1932:

Reprieve by Kenneth Ingram. Panics: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (12 tales). London. Philip Allan. 1934. p. 225. 8vo. pp. 241.

The Locum by Kenneth Ingram. Monsters: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (12 tales). London. Philip Allan. 1934. p. 219. 8vo. pp. 249.

The Confession by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. p. 51.

The Third Time by Kenneth Ingram. Powers of Darkness: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (10 tales). London. Philip Allan. 1934. p. 69. 8vo. pp. 243.

Passing of the Terror by Kenneth Ingram. Thrills: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (14 tales). London. Philip Allan. 1935. p. 217. 8vo. pp. 249.

The False Trail by Kenneth Ingram. Tales of Dread: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (9 tales). London. Philip Allan. 1936. p. 223. 8vo. pp. 248.

 

Allegory by Kenneth Ingram. The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship. Volume 1, number 1 (only published issue). The Editorial Committee. London. 1920. pp. 24-27.

Class Hatred by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. pp. 28-33. [see facsimile edition with an introduction by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Asphodel Editions (150 numbered copies). 2001.

 

ARTICLES IN VARIOUS PERIODICALS:

 

Legitimism as a Practical Policy by Kenneth Ingram. The Jacobite magazine. March 1903.

Russia in the Wrong by Kenneth Ingram. Occasional Papers monthly magazine. May 1904.

Spiritual Healing by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. June 1904.

In the Stalls by Kenneth Ingram (article on theatrical criticism). ibid.

The Dawn of the Yellow Peril by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. December 1904.

Dramatic Criticism by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. June 1905.

On the Coast of Artois – If the Tunnel were Built by Kenneth Ingram. The Treasury monthly magazine. March 1907.

The Christmas of the Cattle by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. December 1909.

The Charterhouse Mission in Southwark by Kenneth Ingram. ibid. October 1910.

Cinemas at the Front – Tommy Welcomes Battle Pictures (article) by Lieutenant Kenneth Ingram. Cambridge Daily News. Tuesday 3^rd September 1918. p. 4. [also other newspapers]

A Morning Cup of Tea by Lieutenant Kenneth Ingram [War Sketches]. War Supplement, week ending 28^th September 1918. Chichester Observer. Wednesday 25^th September 1918. p. 6. [also other newspapers]

The Author Must Be An Editor by Kenneth Ingram. The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers – A Weekly Service for Authors. Volume 79-82. 28 April 1928. Ed. William R Kane; published by: William R Kane, R C Smith & A N Kane. Book Hill, Highland Falls, New York. pp 68-69.

The Future of the Catholic Movement: Towards a Settlement by Kenneth Ingram. Green Quarterly. June 1928.

Religious Drama by Kenneth Ingram. The Churchman’s Handbook 1936: Everyman’s Guide to the Church of England. London. The Church Assembly. 1935.

Outside the Kremlin Windows by Kenneth Ingram. Fellowship magazine, volume 19, issue 2. New York. February 1953. pp. 14-20.

 

REVIEWS IN THE CRITERION:

Kenneth Ingram’s review of Ronald Knox: Caliban in Grub Street by G Lowes Dickinson and others. The Criterion 1922-1939 in 18 volumes, ed by T S Eliot. Volume IX October 1929-July 1930. London. Faber & Faber. 1967. Volume IX, number 37, July 1930. pp. 757-759.

Martin Luther: A Destiny by Lucien Febvre. The Criterion 1922-1939 in 18 volumes, ed by T S Eliot. Volume X October 1930-July 1931. London. Faber & Faber. 1967. Volume X, number 39, January 1931. pp. 336-337.

Pascal by Jacques Chevalier. Ibid.

Social Control of Sex Expression by Geoffrey May. Ibid. Volume X, number 40, April 1931. pp. 541-542.

Kenneth Ingram’s Christianity: Right or Left was reviewed by George Every in The Criterion. Volume XVI October 1936-July 1937. Volume XVI, number 65, July 1937. pp. 711-713.

Ingram’s review of the Drift of Civilization by C G Abbot. George Allen & Unwin. 1930 was submitted to the Criterion but not accepted.

 

INGRAM AS SPEAKER – Some Subjects and Occasions:

 

Prior to the First World War Ingram spoke on various subjects concerning religious issues from ‘Voluntary Discipline’ (March 1905), ‘Religion and Morality’ read to the Chiswick branch of the E.C.U. [English Church Union] on Wednesday 25^th October 1905, ‘What is Catholic?’ (April 1907), ‘Present Difficulties’ and ‘The Proposed Revision of the Prayer Book’; ‘Dangers Ahead’ [part 1: Dangers Within, part 2: Dangers Without], ‘Present and Future Dangers’ (changes to the Marriage Law), (September 1907), ‘On the Outlook for Church People’ (May 1908), ‘Some Consequences of the Reformation Settlement’ (June 1909), ‘The Athanasian Creed’ (October 1909), ‘Divorce and Facilities for Divorce’ (August 1910), ‘the Church’s Law on Holy Matrimony’ (November 1910), ‘the Revision of the Prayer Book’ (May 1911), ‘the Reformation Settlement’ (October 1911) and ‘the State of the Holy Communion’ (November 1912), ‘The State and Admission to Holy Communion’ (October 1913), ‘Relations Between Church and State’ (April 1914):

‘What does Catholic Mean?’ E.C.U. Reading Branch. Phillip’s Restaurant, 9 Duke Street, Reading. Monday 28^th January 1907. 8 p.m.

‘Catholic Duties – To His Home, To His Fellow Men, To His Country’. E.C.U. Reading Branch. Phillip’s Restaurant, 9 Duke Street, Reading. Tuesday 29^th January 1907. 8 p.m.

‘How To Reach The Average Man – the Catholic Faith from the Practical Point of View’. E.C.U. Reading Branch. Phillip’s Restaurant, 9 Duke Street, Reading. Tuesday 16^th April 1907.

‘The Education Bill’. E.C.U. All Saint’s Hall, Lower Sydenham. December 1908.

‘Catholicism from a Practical Point of View’. E.C.U. Barnes branch. Cleveland Hall, Barnes. Tuesday 17^th March 1908.

‘Catholics and Holy Communion’. E.C.U. Winchester. Thursday 25^th February 1909.

‘Reformation Settlement’. Thatched Assembly Rooms, Norwich. Friday 4^th February 1910.

‘The Work of the E.C.U.’ and ‘Marriage Law’. Falkland Hall, Burford, Oxfordshire. 12^th December 1912.

Following the war he was very active in his speaking work giving talks on – ‘the Church and Divorce’ [after his article in The Fiery Cram] (April 1926), ‘Man’s Personal Life’ (November 1926), ‘What is Anglo-Catholicism?’ (June 1928), ‘The Future of the Catholic Movement’ [after his article of the same name appearing in the Green Quarterly] (October 1928):

‘The War and its Lessons’ (lecture) at the Theosophical Society, Church Road, Tunbridge Wells on Monday 6^th March 1922.

‘The Influence of Democracy on Religion’ at York House, Cheriton Gardens, Canterbury for the Annual Festival, English Church Union on Thursday 17^th June 1926.

‘The Catholic Faith in Daily Life’ at St Mary’s Hall, Coventry (with fellow novelist and speaker Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith) on Tuesday 31^st January 1928.

Throughout the 1930’s he is in demand at many philosophical, sociological and religious-based events for lectures and discussions, some subjects were: ‘the Rally to Religion’ (February 1937), ‘the Church of Tomorrow (Answers to Listener’s Questions)’ (1937)

‘Modern Moral Standards’ at the Market Hall, Redhill, Surrey on Thursday 10^th March 1932 at 8 p.m.

‘The Censorship’ at Moot Hall Chambers, Wheeler-Gate, Nottingham in October 1932.

Ingram ‘preached’ at St Martin’s Parish Church, Bryanston, Dorset on Sunday 20^th November 1932 at 11 a.m.

‘Will Religion Survive in the Present Age?’ a monthly lecture for men at Coventry Cathedral’s Journalist’s Service on Sunday 5^th February 1933.

‘The Church and its Future’ at the Church Room, Oxted on Thursday 8^th June 1933. [the previous day, Wednesday 7^th June, he gave a talk at a meeting in the Public Library, Bromley].

The talk was on modern drama as he spoke alongside Dame Sybil Thorndike at the Coventry Repertory Circle on Sunday 15^th October 1933.

‘Can we be Materialists?’ (in a series of Sunday Afternoon Talks which began on 2^nd June 1935) in a Short Religious Service for Young People at John Smith’s Square, London on Sunday 14^th July 1935. In June 1935 Ingram gave a talk on the same subject during a national radio broadcast on Sunday 2^nd June 1935 from 5.10-5.30 p.m.

‘The International Situation’ at the Free Church in Bradford in September 1936.

‘The Christian Answer to Fascism’ at the Adult School, Friend’s Meeting House, Foregate Street, Leicester on Saturday 18^th/Sunday 19^th September 1938.

‘Christianity and the Crisis’ (Ingram gave the weekly midday Lenten Address at the United Kingdom Provident Institution Dinner) for the New Commonwealth Society at Birmingham Cathedral on Wednesday 8^th March 1939.

In May 1939 there was a series of week-long talks on ‘Christian Sociology’ from 8^th-12^th May at the School for Clergy, St Cuthbert’s Retreat House, in Gateshead, Newcastle.

Subjects for talks during the 40’s were: ‘the Answer to Nazism’ (December 1940), ‘Common Ownership’ (October 1941), ‘the Forward March movement’ (May 1942), ‘Post-War Construction’ (January 1944), ‘Religion and the New Society’ (February 1945).

‘The Meaning of World Struggles’ (Unser Kampf Movement in collaboration with Sir Richard Acland) for the Chester Christian Action Group at the Cathedral parlour on Monday 16^th June 1941.

‘The Issues at Stake Today’ (Unser Kampf Movement in collaboration with Sir Richard Acland), the Chester Forum held at Queen’s Street Church, Chester on Sunday 22^nd June 1941.

‘Common Wealth and the Fascist Challenge to Democracy’ at the Co-Operative Assembly Room, Derby on Monday 1^st May 1944. He also spoke the following month during a Common Wealth meeting at the Labour Hall, Minster Street, Reading on Wednesday 21^st June 1944.

During the 1950’s his talk was mostly concerned with ‘Christianity and Communism’, his subject at the Sydenham Friend’s Meeting House on Saturday 9^th June 1951 and in July 1952 he travelled to the USSR as part of twelve members of a Christian delegation; following his visit he gave a series of talks on ‘Anglo-Soviet Relations’ and spoke at the Court Room, Town Hall, Worthing, Sussex on Thursday 13^th November 1952 at 7.15 p.m. on this topic.

 

SOME BOOKS OF INTEREST CONCERNING KENNETH INGRAM:

The Letters of T S Eliot. Volume 5: 1930-1931. ed. John Haffenden & Valerie Eliot. London. Faber & Faber. 2014.

Eliot After the Waste Land. (2^nd volume of biography) Robert Crawford. Jonathan Cape. 2022.

Return to Reality: Some Essays on Contemporary Christianity. Ed. Rev. Stanley G Evans. London. Zeno. 1954. pp. 300. [contains Ingram’s essay ‘The Church and Social Thinking’ (1954), p. 192]

Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth. Vincent Geoghegan. Taylor & Francis. 2012. [chapter 2: Kenneth Ingram – The Christian and the Sexual: homosexuality, bisexuality, pederasty. p. 53]

Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English ‘Uranian’ Poets from 1889-1930. Timothy d’Arch Smith. London. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1970.

The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship. Facsimile edition of the first and only volume published in 1920 with an introduction by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Asphodel Editions (150 numbered copies). 2001.

Maurice B Reckitt: A Life. John Stuart Peart-Binns. Bowerdean. 1988. (see pp. 140-141).

The Armchair Detective. (quarterly journal).Volume 7. New York. Mysterious Press. 1973. p. 76.

William Temple: Twentieth Century Christian. Joseph F Fletcher. New York. Seabury Press. 1963.

George Bell, Bishop of Chichester. Ronald Claude Dudley Jasper. Oxford University Press. 1967.

The Forward March. Sir Richard Acland. London. George Allan & Unwin Ltd. 1941.