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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

John Richard Marshall Roscoe 1935-2025

John Richard Marshall Roscoe, of North Deighton Manor, Wetherby, died 10 November, 2025. He was 90.

He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 1935, son of John C. Roscoe, and his wife the former Kathleen Mary M Wiggins (1908-1994).

He married 5 October, 1963, Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, DCVO (1944-2020), who served as Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire 2004-2018. 

Dame Ingrid, appointed DCVO, in 2017, died 28 June, 2020, aged 76.  Mr Roscoe leaves thee children, Nick, Emma and Katie.

His wife was born 27 May, 1944, daughter of Arthur Allen and his wife, Else Markenstam. Her father died in her childhood and her mother subsequently married Brigadier Kenneth Hargreaves, CBE [1903-90], Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding 1970-74, and of West Yorkshire, 1974-78, who adopted Ingrid. Her mother died in 1968, and the following year Brig Hargreaves married the Hon Margaret Lane Fox, scion of the family of Bramham Park, daughter of the 1st and last Lord Bingley.

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