John Ingram (engineer)
Sir John Henderson Ingram was a New Zealand engineer and businessman.Biography
Ingram was born in 1924 and was educated at Nelson College from 1935 to 1942 and Canterbury University College, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering in 1950. His career included a period as chief executive of New Zealand Steel. He also served as a member of the University of Auckland Council and the Waitangi Tribunal.
In the 1984 New Year Honours, Ingram was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to manufacturing and the engineering profession, and in the 1994 New Year Honours he was made a Knight Bachelor for services to engineering and business management.
Ingram was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand in 1997. He was also a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Ingram died in Auckland on 1 April 2015. Ingram was survived by his wife Rosemary, Lady Ingram, his three daughters Edwina, Jean and Joan and by his grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
