Early Life
Born in 1832 in Bengal, India, and educated at Sedbergh School, Ainslie was one of sixteen children of Montague Ainslie (1792–1884), a native of Kendal in Cumberland.
Ainslie's father, after attending the East India Company College, entered the East India Company's service and was Political Agent to Lord William Bentinck while he was Governor-General of India (1828–1835), and later returned to Grizedale in Lancashire where he became a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant for the county.
Ainslie's father built a house for him at Ulverston. Set in parkland, the house was named Ford Park in honour of Montague Ainslie's grandfather, the ironmaster William Ford.
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