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{{Short description|British Labour politician (1892–1979)}}
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|honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
|name = The Lord Inman
|honorific-suffix = [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]
|image = 
|office1 = [[Lord Privy Seal|Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal]]
|term_start1 = 17 April 1947
|term_end1 = 7 October 1947
|monarch1=[[George VI]]
|primeminister1=[[Clement Attlee]]
|predecessor1 = [[Arthur Greenwood]]
|successor1 = [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison|The Viscount Addison]]
| office4          = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]

| term_start4      = 1 January 1946
| term_end4        = 26 August 1979<br>[[Hereditary Peerage]]
| predecessor4     = ''Peerage created''
| successor4       = ''Peerage extinct''
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|birth_date = 12 June 1892
|death_date = 26 August 1979
|party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] 
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'''Philip Albert Inman, 1st Baron Inman''', [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (12 June 1892 &ndash; 26 August 1979) was a British [[Labour Party (UK)|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.<ref name="inman">[http://inman.surnameweb.org/arms/ Brief biography at inman.surnameweb.org] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20030317011833/http://inman.surnameweb.org/arms/ |date=17 March 2003 }}</ref> He married May Dew on 27 August 1919; they had a son, Philip John Cope Inman, on 15 March 1929.<ref name="CP">"The Complete Peerage" Vol XIV ed. by Peter W. Hammond, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p. 774.</ref>

==Career==
In 1946 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Inman''', of Knaresborough in the West Riding of the County of York.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37461 |date=8 February 1946 |page=864 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="CP" />

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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]] [[File:Inman Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|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.
|crest = A covered cup Or between two wyvern’s wings Azure both charged with an Ermine spot Gold.
|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<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1959}}</ref>}}

== Legacy ==
A plaque in Knaresborough commemorates the house in which Inman was born.<ref>{{Cite web |title=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 |url=http://teresa-goatham.me.uk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I121&tree=tree1 |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=teresa-goatham.me.uk}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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