Archibald Inglis

He was born on 1 December 1801[1] at Post House Stair on Parliament Close off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh the son of Dr Andrew Inglis (d.1834) and grandson of Dr William Inglis.

[2] His house was remodelled and readdressed as 16 Parliament Square following the rebuilding of the law courts in Edinburgh.

Inglis studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from around 1817 to 1821, gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1824.

His family then relocated to a then-new townhouse at 11 Albany Street in Edinburgh's New Town.

[6] In 1853 he succeeded James Scarth Combe as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.