James Inglis (1813-1851) was a Scottish physician, author and geologist.
James Inglis (1813-1851) was a Scottish physician, author and geologist.
James Inglis was born in Glasgow on 6 September 1813, [1] the son of James Inglis, a merchant and his wife, Charlotte Spalding, the daughter of Charles Spalding, improver of the diving bell. Through his mother, Inglis was a member of the Smalls of Dirnanean, a Perthshire family that included direct ancestor, James Small, factor of the forfeited Robertson estates after Culloden.
After early schooling in Musselburgh, Inglis became a student at the University of Edinburgh. While a student in Edinburgh, he received the Hope prize for chemistry for his paper, Essay on iodine and bromine. [2] His mentor during this time was Sir George Ballingall. [3] Receiving his medical degree in 1834, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of England in that same year. [3]
Inglis set up practice at Castle Douglas. [2] In 1835, he performed a brilliant home operation on gunshot victim, Maria Kennedy, removing the bullet from behind her left frontal bone. [2] She had been shot by Kirkcudbright Stewart-officer Robert Blair. [2] The patient survived and Inglis provided detailed testimony of the operation and the condition of the patient at the trial. [2]
In 1837 he moved to the Ripon Public Dispensary. Then in 1838, while at Ripon, Inglis published his Treatise of English Bronchocele. [2] The work documented the epidemiology of goitre, using iodine treatment research Inglis had accumulated in both Scotland and England. [2]
In 1838, Inglis moved his practice to Halifax, West Yorkshire. [2]
Pursuing a lifelong passion for chemistry and geology, Inglis became the curator for the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society. [3] In 1843, while studying the Halifax coal beds, he discovered a new species of sea lily that he named Nautilus Rawsoni, [4] which he named after Christopher Rawson, [5] the founder of the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society. [6]
Interested in phrenology, Inglis researched the brain of Eugene Aram, an infamous English murderer. [2]
Inglis was a Freemason and a past Master of the Yorkshire Lodge in Halifax. [7]
Inglis married Louisa Rawson (ca. 1826-1909), the daughter of Jeremiah Rawson, Esq., on 3 May 1842 at St. John the Baptist Church in Halifax. [8] The couple had the following children:
A great-granddaughter of Inglis was Surrealist performance artist Sheila Legge. A brother-in-law of Inglis, and a fellow physician, was Dr. Charles Ransford. [2]
Inglis died at Halifax on 9 March 1851. [7] His sister, St. Clair Ransford, attributed his early death to cardiac arrest, likely due to several bouts of rheumatic fever as a young man. [2] Dr. Inglis and his wife were buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard in Halifax, [7] which unfortunately has been converted into a car park.
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