![]() That year Inglis’s father secured his appointment as private secretary to Addington (now Lord Sidmouth) as home secretary in the Liverpool ministry. Another close friend from Oxford was Sir Thomas Dyke Acland*, who was returned as Member for Devon in 1812. 2 He shared Peel’s Toryism and zeal for the interests of the established church, but not his talent. 1 Robert, his only son, whose mother died when he was six (his father married again in 1794) became a close friend at Christ Church of Robert Peel*, his junior by two years, who entered the House soon after going down and in little over a year was embarked on his ministerial career under Perceval, of whom Inglis was a warm admirer. A steady supporter of Henry Dundas† at East India House, he received a baronetcy from Addington, a personal friend, in 1801, and sat for Ashburton as a supporter of Addington and then Pitt in the 1802 Parliament. Nine years later he married a Bedfordshire heiress and became a director of the Company, serving until 1813. Inglis’s father, a native of Edinburgh, had a colourful career in the East India Company’s naval and civil services before returning to England in 1775. on ecclesiastical revenues and patronage 1832-5, improvement of metropolis 1842-51 PC 11 Aug. of Joseph Seymour Biscoe of Pendhill Court, Bletchingley, Surr., s.p. ![]() of Sir Hugh Inglis†, 1st bt., of Milton Bryant and 1st w.
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