He saw action as a Lt Colonel in Portugal and served as aide-de-camp to Prince Charles of Mecklenburg.
[citation needed] In 1784, he was living at 38 St Andrews Square which was then a newly built house in Edinburgh's New Town.
His daughter, Margaret Jane Ainslie, married Francis Stuart, 10th Earl of Moray.
A Pattern Book belonging to his daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Inglis is held by the University of Edinburgh Heritage Collections.
[4] His portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds was reproduced as a mezzotint by James Scott.