David Kinloch (1560–1617) was a Scottish physician and poet.
Kinloch was imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition.Adam Yagüi-Beltrán & Laura Adam, 'The imprisonment of David Kinloch, 1588-1594: an analysis of newly discovered documents in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition', Innes Review, 53:1 (June 2002), pp. 1-39.
In Scotland, Kinloch was appointed a physician to the king on 20 March 1596-7. James VI signed a lengthy Latin testimonial referring to Kinloch's kinship to Ramsay and Lindsay of Edzell families. Below the document are illustrated the arms of his four grandparents: Kinloch, Ramsay, Lindsay, and Hay.(G. R. Kinloch), Reliquiæ Antiquæ Scoticæ (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 76-8.
Kinloch married Grizzel Hay, the heiress of the lands of Gourdie. He owned the estate of Aberbothrie in Alyth.
His portrait, dated 1614, is displayed at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection - The Kinloch Portrait
Kinloch published a medical treatise in Latin verse, De hominis procreatione, anatome, ac morbis internis (Paris, 1596).
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