Dr Hugh Ingram, a passionate conservationist and the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Chairman from 1996-1999, passed away in March 2017 at the age of 80. The following appreciation has been written by our Angus and Dundee Local Group, with whom he was heavily involved for many years.

We all were very saddened in March to hear of the sudden passing of Dr Hugh AP Ingram. His has been a powerful voice for conservation and the environment for many years. As one of the speakers remarked at his well-attended memorial service, only two days before he’d had an encouraging email from Hugh prompting him to further efforts – entirely typical.

The service at Dunbog in North Fife brought together a considerable number of relatives and friends along with colleagues and former students from his working life at the University of Dundee, from the Trust, both locally and nationally, and from a number of the other organisations with which he’d been involved.

Hugh has been a very important member of the Scottish Wildlife Trust since its foundation. He’s played a vital role both locally, here in Angus, and nationally, as chairman of the Trust’s governing Council in Edinburgh, helping to guide the Trust through a difficult period. Hugh played an essential role in setting up one of our most important wildlife reserves in Angus, Balgavies Loch, and helped manage it for many years.

He also served as chairman of our local committee and contributed valuable ideas, suggestions and advice over a long period. With his great knowledge of conservation biology and vast array of friends and contacts throughout Scotland and much further afield, he was a highly valued colleague and guiding hand. Our deepest sympathies go out to his wife, Ruth, herself a well-respected biologist, and to his family. He will be greatly missed.