Philip Inman, 1st Baron Inman

The Right Honourable
The Lord Inman
PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Inman PC
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	In office; 17 April 1947 – 7 October 1947
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Arthur Greenwood
Succeeded by	The Viscount Addison
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	In office; 1 January 1946 – 26 August 1979; Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	Peerage extinct
Personal details
Born	12 June 1892
Died	26 August 1979
Political party	Labour

Philip Albert Inman, 1st Baron Inman, PC (12 June 1892 – 26 August 1979) was a British Labour politician.

Background and education

Inman was the son of Philip Inman (d. 1894), of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, a rate collector, by his wife Hannah Bickerdyke, of Great Ouseburn, Yorkshire. He was educated at Headingley College, Leeds, and Leeds University. He fought in the First World War, where he was invalided out.^[1] He married May Dew on 27 August 1919; they had a son, Philip John Cope Inman, on 15 March 1929.^[2]

Career

In 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inman, of Knaresborough in the West Riding of the County of York.^[3] He served under Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal, with a seat in the cabinet, from April to October 1947, when he resigned. The same year he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC.

Personal life and death

Lord Inman died in August 1979, aged 87. His son had predeceased him in 1968 and so the barony became extinct.^[2]

Coat of arms of Philip Inman, 1st Baron Inman
	Crest A covered cup Or between two wyvern’s wings Azure both charged with an Ermine spot Gold. Escutcheon Per chevron Ermine and Azure in chief two lions rampant combatant Or holding between the forepaws a Maltese cross Gules surmounted by an annulet Argent and in base a triple-towered castled Proper. Supporters On either side a golden retriever Proper gorged with a collar Sable charged with three roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper. Motto Fide Caritate Ministerio^[4]

Legacy

A plaque in Knaresborough commemorates the house in which Inman was born.^[5]

References

^ Brief biography at inman.surnameweb.org Archived 17 March 2003 at archive.today
^ ^a ^b "The Complete Peerage" Vol XIV ed. by Peter W. Hammond, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p. 774.
^ "No. 37461". The London Gazette. 8 February 1946. p. 864.
^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.
^ "Lord Philip Albert INMAN b. 12 Jun 1892 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England d. 26 Aug 1979 Cuckfield Reg Dist, Sussex, England: Teresa Goatham's Family History". teresa-goatham.me.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2022.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Inman

Political offices
Preceded by Arthur Greenwood	Lord Privy Seal 1947	Succeeded by The Viscount Addison
Media offices
Preceded by Sir Allan Powell	Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1947	Succeeded by Ernest Simon
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Inman 1946–1979	Extinct

[inman-1] Brief biography at inman.surnameweb.org Archived 17 March 2003 at archive.today

[CP-2] "The Complete Peerage" Vol XIV ed. by Peter W. Hammond, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p. 774.

[3] "No. 37461". The London Gazette. 8 February 1946. p. 864.

[4] Burke's Peerage. 1959.

[5] "Lord Philip Albert INMAN b. 12 Jun 1892 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England d. 26 Aug 1979 Cuckfield Reg Dist, Sussex, England: Teresa Goatham's Family History". teresa-goatham.me.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2022.

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