Henry Ainslie
Henry Ainslie (21 March 1760 – 1834) was a physician. He was the son of the Kendal physician James Ainslie.Commissioner for Madhouses in 1797 and 1798, and a Senior Commissioner in 1809 and 1817.
In 1785 he married Agnes Ford of Monk Coniston (an estate near
Lake District) in the church at Colton. Agnes Ford was the daughter of Richard Ford, founder of the Newland Company, later known as Harrison Ainslie. The couple owned Ford Lodge at Grizedale and planted many thousands of larch trees in the valley and on the surrounding hills and moorland which effectively started Grizedale Forest. They had a son Montague Ainslie
.
References
- ^ "Henry Ainslie". Royal College of Physicians Museum. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Ainslie, Henry (ANSY777H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Norman Moore, ‘Ainslie, Henry (1760–1834)’, rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/235, accessed 18 Sept 2008
External links
Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Henry Ainslie.
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