Old photograph of the Central Hotel in Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. Sir Robert John Mathieson Inglis, was born at Tantah House in south Peebles on 5 May 1881, the son of James C. Inglis. He was educated locally at Bonnington Park Academy then went to Edinburgh University to study Mathematics and Engineering. In 1900 he joined the North British Railway as a junior design engineer. He quickly rose to be Resident Engineer for the Lothian area and was involved in the widening works between Edinburgh and Portobello, including a reconfiguration of the tunnels going through Calton Hill under the Royal High School. In 1909 he became Chief Assistant for New Works for all of the North British Railway, aged only 28. In 1911 he received yet another boost to his career, being appointed an Engineer to the Ministry of Transport for Great Britain. In 1912 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Willam Archer Porter Tait, Benjamin Hall Blyth, Charles Alexander Stevenson and William Allan Carter. In 1948 he went to South Africa to advise upon and establish the new Durban railway station. In 1949 he returned to Scotland as Chairman of the Glasgow and District Transport Committee with the primary purpose of electrifying the Glasgow and Clyde Valley railway system. He retired to Helensburgh in 1957 aged 76, and took on the titular role of Deputy Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire. He died in Helensburgh on 23 June 1962.
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