The Right Honourable
The Lord Inman
PC
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office
17 April 1947 – 7 October 1947
MonarchGeorge VI
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byArthur Greenwood
Succeeded byThe Viscount Addison
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
1 January 1946 – 26 August 1979
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byPeerage created
Succeeded byPeerage extinct
Personal details
Born12 June 1892
Died26 August 1979
Political partyLabour

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, 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

  1. ↑ Brief biography at inman.surnameweb.org Archived 17 March 2003 at archive.today
  2. 1 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.

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Inman

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