Philip Albert Inman, 1st Baron Inman, PC (12 June 1892 – 26 August 1979) was a British Labour politician.
The Lord Inman | |
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| 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 |
Background and education
editInman 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
editIn 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
editLord Inman died in August 1979, aged 87. His son had predeceased him in 1968 and so the barony became extinct.[2]
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Legacy
editA plaque in Knaresborough commemorates the house in which Inman was born.[5]
References
edit- ^ 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
editHansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Inman