Martin Tupper (physician)
Martin Tupper, FRS, FGS (1780 – 8 December 1844) of 5 New Burlington Street, London was an English physician.
The son of John Tupper and Catherine Bowden, he became a respected physician whose patients included the Duke of Wellington.
As well as becoming a Fellow of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London in 1819[1] he was an amateur geologist and a Fellow of the Geological Society. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1835.[2]
He died in 1844 at South Hill Park, the Berkshire home of the dying Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick, when attending him in a medical capacity.[3] Tupper had married Ellin Marris, and had 4 sons, including the poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.
References[]
- ^ Medico-chirurgical Transactions, Volume 26. p. xxiv.
- ^ "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of 1844, Volume 86. p. 288.
Categories:
- 1780 births
- 1844 deaths
- 19th-century English medical doctors
- Fellows of the Geological Society of London
- Fellows of the Royal Society