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Up for sale "2nd Baronet" Sir Robert Inglis Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1829.

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Sir

Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Baronet, FRS (12

January 1786 – 5 May 1855) was an for his staunch high church views. He

was the son of Sir Hugh Inglis,

a minor politician married Mary Briscoe who was the daughter of John Briscoe and Susanna Harriot Hope whose

marriage had ended in scandal.

Robert succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1820, and served as MP 1829 to 1854. He was appointed High Sheriff of

Bedfordshire for 1824. Inglis was strongly opposed to measures

which, in his view, weakened the Anglican Church. When Robert Grant, MP for Inverness

Burghs, petitioned for Jewish relief in 1830, Inglis was violently

opposed. Inglis alleged that the Jews were an alien people, with no allegiance

to England, and that to admit Jews to parliament would "separate

Christianity itself from the State." He also alleged that if they were admitted to

parliament "within seven years...Parliamentary Reform would be

carried." Inglis was joined in his public opposition by

the Chancellor of the

Exchequer, Henry Goulburn, and the Solicitor

General and future Lord Chancellor, Sir Edward

Sugden. Although the Jews were not emancipated fully until

1858, Parliamentary Reform occurred

in 1832, just two years later. Inglis also likened Buddhism to "idolatry" in connection with the British colony of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) during a debate over the

relationship of "Buddhist priests" to the British colonial government

in 1852.

In 1845 he broke with Sir Robert Peel and opposed the Maynooth Grant, which would have granted a yearly £26,000 subsidy to the Catholic Maynooth seminary.

Other opponents included, oddly enough, John Bright and Benjamin Disraeli, although on different grounds. In 1851,

when Lord Stanley (who

became the Earl of Derby later that year) attempted to form a protectionist

administration, Inglis was offered the presidency of the Board of

Control, which he accepted initially, only to withdraw a few days

later. A major activity of Inglis's political career was the chairing of

the select committee that

controlled the House of Commons Library,

of which he was a member for 14 years. However, his rather narrow view of its

scope was overturned by Sir Robert Peel in 1850. He was made a privy counsellor in 1854, and died the next year, at the

age of 69. On his death the baronetcy became extinct. Inglis's Journals are in

the Canterbury Cathedral library