Biography
Jane Tupper-Carey (1897-1982), one of five children of Canon Albert Darell Tupper-Carey (who for a time was a chaplain in Monte Carlo and in 1938 became chaplain to King George VI) and his wife, Helen (née Chapman) was a botanist, after taking an MSC, in 1922 she was appointed assistant in biological research work at the University of Leeds; later she was an assistant in the Plant Genetics Department of the Imperial Institute of Agriculture, Cambridge. In 1932 she married the Cambridge mathematician A. E. (Albert) Ingham (1900–67) – previously (1926–30) Reader in Mathematical Analysis at the University of Leeds – who in that same year published his classic work The Distribution of Prime Numbers. Her sister Edith was married to author and publisher Michael Sadlier (1888-1957) (author of Fanny by Gaslight), son of the educationalist Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943), who owned a number of works by William Roberts. Sadler himself was a friend of her father and vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds in 1911–23.