• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0302

Ingold, Beryl Elizabeth

(1927 – 2011)
  • Born 4 March, 1927, Sydney New South Wales Australia
  • Died 7 April, 2011, Cootamundra New South Wales Australia
  • Occupation Community worker

Summary

Beryl Ingold AO 2001, MBE 1979 is a former farmer from Cootamundra, New South Wales who has served on many state committees for the advancement of agriculture, education, women and the community. Born in Sydney on 4 March 1927, Ingold was educated at Cootamundra and gained a Bachelor of Applied Science, Agriculture, from the Riverina Murray Institute of Higher Education. She has been a member of the Riverina area consultative committee since 1996, Chair of the Orange Agricultural College of Sydney University since 1995 and the Riverina TAFE since 1994. Ingold is a life member of Country Women’s Association, patron of NSW Rural Youth since 1990.

The above biography was researched and written by Philida Sturgiss-Hoy for Women’s History Month (2002)

Events

  • 1981 - 1984

    Member of the New South Wales Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier

  • 1981 - 1984

    Member of the Education Commission NSW Task Force

  • 1978 - 1978

    Member of the Riverina Area Scout Association of Australia Council

  • 1970 - 1970

    Member of the Agricultural Bureau New South Wales

  • 1990 - 1993

    Director of the New South Wales Education Training Foundation

  • 1987 - 1992

    Chairperson of the Riverina Council of Adult Education

  • 1989 - 1991

    Deputy Chairperson of the New South Wales Board of Adult Education

  • 1984 - 1991

    Member of the New South Wales Board of Adult Education

  • 1980 - 1988

    Chairperson of the Cootamundra Housing Committee

  • 1985 - 1987

    Chairperson of the Family and Children’s Services Ministerial Advisory Committee

  • 1985 - 1987

    Member of the Albury/Wodonga Post School Education Council

  • 1983 - 1986

    Member of the Meat and Allied Trade Course Review Committee Ryde School of Hotel Management and Catering

  • 2027 - 2027

    Born daughter of David Lewis and Evelyn Jane (nee Griffiths) Walters

  • 1996 - 1996

    Member of the Riverina Area Consultative Committee

  • 1995 - 1995

    Chairperson of the Orange Agricultural College Advisory Council University Sydney

  • 1994 - 1994

    Chairperson of the Riverina Institute of TAFE Advisory Council

  • 1994 - 1994

    Chairperson of the Cootamundra District Land Board

  • 1992 - 1992

    Community Representative and President of the Cootamundra Public School

  • 1991 - 1991

    Member of the Riverina Region Development Board

  • 1979 - 1979

    Member of the Murrumbidgee Agricultural College Advisory Board

  • 1991 - 1994

    Member of the Legal Profession Disciplinary Tribunal

  • 1979 - 1999

    State Treasurer of the Agricultural Bureau New South Wales

  • 1975 - 1979

    State President of the Agricultural Bureau New South Wales

  • 1978 - 1999

    Member of Farm Writers and Broadcasters

  • 1991 - 1991

    Fellow of the University of New England

  • 1990 - 1990

    Patron of the New South Wales Rural Youth State Council

  • 1976 - 1977

    Vice-President of the New South Wales Rural Youth State Council

  • 1999 - 1999

    Ambassador for the International Year of the Older Persons

  • 1988 - 1988

    Awarded Bicentennial Medal

  • 1982 - 1982

    Australia/New Zealand Foundation Scholarship Study Tour ‘Women in Agriculture’

  • 1970 - 1970

    Cootamundra Citizen of the Year

  • 2050 - 2050

    married Edward Thomas Ingold

  • 2001 - 2001

    Officer of the Order of Australia

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