Henry Ainslie (21 March 1760 – 1834) was a physician. He was the son of the Kendal physician James Ainslie. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and then

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(where he graduated

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and was second in the Smith Prize), he became a fellow of Pembroke in 1782, and a Fellow of the

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in 1795.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 He was a Junior 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 Coniston Water in the English

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) 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.

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Portrait of Henry Ainslie at Pembroke College
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Senior Wranglers 1760 births 1834 deaths People educated at Hawkshead Grammar School 19th-century English medical doctors {{England-med-bio-stub