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.

[1] He married May Dew on 27 August 1919; they had a son, Philip John Cope Inman, on 15 March 1929.

[2] 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.

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