He was born on 1 December 1801 at Post House Stair on Parliament Close off the
Royal Mile in
Edinburgh the son of Dr Andrew Inglis (d.1834) and grandson of
Dr William Inglis. His house was remodelled and readdressed as 16 Parliament Square following the rebuilding of the law courts in Edinburgh. His father served as President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1808 to 1810. His grandfather had served twice in this same role: 1782-1784 and 1790-1792. Inglis studied medicine at the
University of Edinburgh from around 1817 to 1821, gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1824. His family home was destroyed in the
Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824. His family then relocated to a then-new townhouse at 11 Albany Street in
Edinburgh's New Town. Inglis inherited the house on his father's death in 1834, and lived there for most of his life. He was a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh from 1827 In 1833 Inglis was elected a member of the
Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1857. In 1853 he succeeded
James Scarth Combe as President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was succeeded in turn in 1855 by
Dr Andrew Wood. He lived his later years at 33 Albany Street and died there in 1889. ==Family==