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

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, by his wife Hannah Bickerdyke, of

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, Yorkshire. He was educated at Headingley College,

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, and

Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. He fought in the

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, where he was invalided out.Brief biography at inman.surnameweb.org
He married May Dew on 27 August 1919; she bore him a son, Philip John Cope Inman, on 15 March 1929."The Complete Peerage" Vol XIV ed. by Peter W. Hammond, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p. 774.

Career

In 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inman, of Knaresborough in the West Riding of the County of York. He served under

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, 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.

Legacy

A plaque in Knaresborough commemorates the house in which Inman was born.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Inman, Philip 1st Baron Inman 1892 births 1979 deaths Chairmen of the BBC People from Knaresborough BBC Governors Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 Barons created by George VI