Archibald Inglis

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(1 December 1801–1889) was a 19th-century Scottish surgeon who served as President of the

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is a professional organisation of surgeons. The College has seven active faculties, covering a broad spectrum of surgical, dental, and other medical practices. Its main campus is located on ...

for the period 1853 to 1855. He was a keen amateur botanist and chaired the

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Life

He was born on 1 December 1801 at Post House Stair on Parliament Close off the

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the son of Dr Andrew Inglis (d.1834) and grandson of Dr William Inglis. His house was remodelled and readdressed as 16 Parliament Square following the rebuilding of the law courts in Edinburgh. His father served as President of the

from 1808 to 1810. His grandfather had served twice in this same role: 1782-1784 and 1790-1792. Inglis studied medicine at the

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from around 1817 to 1821, gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1824. His family home was destroyed in the

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in 1824. His family then relocated to a then-new townhouse at 11 Albany Street in

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. Inglis inherited the house on his father's death in 1834, and lived there for most of his life. He was a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh from 1827 In 1833 Inglis was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1857.. In 1853 he succeeded

James Scarth Combe James Scarth Combe FRSE, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, FRCSEd (1796–1883) was a British surgeon. He was the first person to give an accurate description of pernicious anaemia and to recognise that atrophic gastritis was a feature of ...

as President of the

. He was succeeded in turn in 1855 by Dr Andrew Wood. He lived his later years at 33 Albany Street and died there in 1889. He is buried in

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Family

He married Isabella Weir (1813-1877), daughter of Major James Weir and brother of Dr Thomas Graham Weir. They had at least eight children. Their son James Weir Inglis (1839-1901) died in

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, and their third born son, Archibald, emigrated to

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(d.1937).

References

1801 births 1889 deaths Medical doctors from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish surgeons 19th-century Scottish botanists Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub