"Greatest of All Advisers" to Saudi Govt is dead: Leonard Ingrams obit

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Leonard Ingrams
Banker and founder of Garsington Opera
Published: 02 August 2005

Leonard Victor Ingrams, merchant banker and opera-festival director: born Hindhead, Surrey 1 September 1941; staff, Baring Bros 1967-81, managing director 1975-81; senior adviser, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency 1974-79, Chief Adviser to the Government 1981-84; OBE 1980; chairman, Deutschland Banking Corporation 1990-96; Chairman, Garsington Opera 1990-2005; chairman, Czech and Slovak Investment Corporation 1992-96; senior vice-president, Arab Banking Corporation 1996-98; partner, L.V. Ingrams & Co 1998-2005; married 1964 Rosalind Moore (one son, three daughters); died Stanwell, Surrey 27 July 2005.

Though he had a colourful and unusual career as a merchant banker and was even styled "Greatest of All Advisers" to the Saudi Arabian government, Leonard Ingrams will be remembered as the founder, with his wife Rosalind, of the Garsington Opera festival that takes place every summer at their Oxfordshire house. Ingrams was a man of many parts - a successful banker, an accomplished classicist, and someone with a keen sense of the comic possibilities of life.

Like his brother Richard, long-time editor of Private Eye and founding editor of The Oldie, he was intensely musical. At the age of six he started violin lessons with his mother, whose circle included Vaughan Williams, Britten, Imogen Holst and Charles Munch, and he went on to play in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain under Sir Malcolm Sargent during the holidays while he was at school at Stonyhurst. "We all played in the family," he said
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Ingrams père was the recent subject of some forged documents purporting to show that he was ordered after the war, with Churchill's permission, to assassinate Himmler.
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article303060.ece

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1. Ingrams always regarded at top MI6 spook and expert

on KGB penetration of Arab rganised crime cartels linked to collapse of BCCI.

He certainly knew more than he ought to have done re the chicanery surrounding the MI6/CIA persona of "King Fahd" - who died within a few days of Ingrams himself.