The Australian Women's Register

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

  Member of the Riverina Area Scout Association of Australia Council

• 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

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

• 1996

  Member of the Riverina Area Consultative Committee

• 1995

  Chairperson of the Orange Agricultural College Advisory Council University Sydney

• 1994

  Chairperson of the Riverina Institute of TAFE Advisory Council

• 1994

  Chairperson of the Cootamundra District Land Board

• 1992

  Community Representative and President of the Cootamundra Public School

• 1991

  Member of the Riverina Region Development Board

• 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

  Fellow of the University of New England

• 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

  Ambassador for the International Year of the Older Persons

• 1988

  Awarded Bicentennial Medal

• 1982

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

• 1970

  Cootamundra Citizen of the Year

• 2050

  married Edward Thomas Ingold

• 2001

  Officer of the Order of Australia