Henry Ainslie

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Henry Ainslie (1760-1834) was a physician. Educated at Hawkshead Grammar School he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1795. 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 Consiton Water in the English Lake District)in the church at Colton. 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.