Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet

Sir Robert Harry Inglis (* January 12, 1786, † May 5, 1855 in London ) was a British Conservative politician.

Life and work

He was from the first marriage of Sir Hugh Inglis with Catherine, the daughter of Harry Johnson of Milton Bryant in Bedfordshire.

Robert Harry Inglis attended Winchester College; He studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He devoted himself to the study of law; In 1806 he received the BA, MA 1809.

Inglis 1818 Barrister. 1824 for Dundalk in 1826 elected for Ripon to the House, he joined after Robert Peel in 1829 because of his opinion change in matters of Catholic Emancipation its mandate for the University of Oxford laid down, the same as the candidate of the anti- Catholics opposed and won with a strong majority.

Since then, the university in parliament representatives, he was considered a leader of the High Church party thereto, opposed the Catholic Emancipation, parliamentary reform, the abolition of the Corn Laws and the emancipation of Jews and proved himself at all as a staunch opponent of all innovations in state as in the ecclesiastical field.

In 1847 he was president of the British Association, and in 1850 he became the successor of Sir Walter Scott in the honorary post of professor of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Arts. In January 1854 he resigned his parliamentary seat for health reasons.

On February 18, 1807, he married Mary, daughter of Joseph Seymour Biscoe from Pendhill Court, Bletchingley, Surrey.

Inglis died on 5 May 1855 in his home on Bedford Square in London.

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• Entry in the archive of the Royal Society (English)