[2] His father moved the family to Crosscauseway in Edinburgh's South side around 1809, to work for Excise.
[4] In 1822 he moved from Dundee to Edinburgh, living at 16 Nicolson Street, close to Surgeons Hall.
[8] In 1840 he succeeded Dr Adam Hunter as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
His sister Mary Gordon Huie married Rev James Fettes, also a Free Church minister.
[4] His brother John Ziegler Huie (1822-1864) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland who settled in Geelong in Victoria, Australia and died there.