Philip Inman, 1st Baron Inman

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] In 1910, when he was an apprentice to a chemist, he was a member of the Malton Mutual Improvement Society, where during a debate he once argued for the abolition of the House of Lords.^[3]

In 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inman, of Knaresborough in the West Riding of the County of York.^[4] 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.

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[5]

A plaque in Knaresborough commemorates the house in which Inman was born.^[6]