Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis

Born in Edinburgh in 1795, Henry David Inglis was the only son of a Scottish advocate. He was educated for business, but office life did not suit him, and he moved instead toward literature and travel.

Inglis became a travel writer and journalist, publishing books drawn from journeys across Europe and sometimes writing as Derwent Conway. Sources connected with his work list titles on places including Norway, Spain, the Tyrol, Ireland, and the Channel Islands, showing how strongly travel shaped both his career and reputation.

He also spent a short period editing a local newspaper in Chesterfield before returning to travel. Inglis died in London in 1835, still relatively young, but he left behind a body of energetic, place-rich writing that gives modern readers a feel for how a 19th-century traveler saw the world.