INGLIS, SIR ROBERT 'TARRY, Beni., many years M.P. for the University of Oxford, was the only son of Sir Hugh Iuglis, Bart., formerly chairman of the East India Company. He was born in 1786, and received his early education at Winchester, and Christ church, Oxford. Soon after taking his degree, he became private secretary to the late Viscount Sidmoutb, and was appointed by him one of the commissioners for settling the affairs of the Carnatic. In 1324 he entered parliament as member for Dundalk, a borough at that time in the patronage of the Earl of Roden. In 1826 he was elected for Ripon, the representation of which borough he resigned in the spring of 1829, in order to contest the University of Oxford against the late Sir Robert Peel, when the latter accepted the Chiltern Hun dreds on introducing the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. From that time he continued to represent the University until January 1853, when he retired from parliamentary life, and was sworn a member of the Privy CounciL His public life was devoted to the cause of Church and State, upon which question he inherited the ancient opinions of Lords Sidmouth and Liverpool; he steadily opposed the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, the Roman Catholic Relief and Reform Bills, and the admission of Jews into parliament, and every measure which ho religiously thought would tend to unchriltianise the legislature.
On these points his opposition was strong and consistent, though to a certain extent characterised by partiality and prejudice. He took an active part in the management of the religious societies of the Established Church, and also of the learned societies of the metropolis. In private life he was highly respected as an amiable and accomplished gentleman. He died in Bedford Square, London, May 5, 1855.