ABSTRACT
FROM HANSARD, cxiv, 1365–75 (14 March, 1851). Robert Inglis, one of the members of Parliament for the University of Oxford, was an accomplished defender of Protestantism and the rights of the Established Church. He had been a leading opponent of most measures of Church reform during the Whig ministries of the 1830’s. His speech on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in the House of Commons was consistent with his earlier record. It is offered here as a typical example of the style of that party which believed the government ought to employ more drastic sanctions than those of the Titles Bill against the Catholics. Inglis closed with familiar reference to the tendency of Catholicism to inhibit ‘the growth of literature and the spread of science’.
